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A. DISCOVERING AND UNDERSTANDING THE NACIREMA, BY GEORGE MURDOCK, RALPH LINTON

Reading Quiz on Article:

1. What fundamental belief system underlies the whole Nacirema system?

DISCUSSION ON THE NACIREMA

Group Discussion on Article

What surprised you?

What is the culture in question?

What insights does this piece provide into the study of ethnic minority histories?

B. HISTORY AND CULTURES: HOW TO LINK THE TWO OVER 500 YEARS? STUDY OF INDIGENOUS HISTORY

Who is an indigenous person?

But isn’t everyone indigenous?

Or is nobody indigenous?

Initial Class definition:

Julian Berger, UN official and International political advocate (Coates 5-6)

Jose’ Martinez Cobo, Ecuadorian diplomat (Coates 6)

UN Commission on Human Rights, UN Economic and Social Council (Coates 7)

IWGIA (Coates 11)

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE?

What is an indigenous person? How do they relate to history and culture?

STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE?

Identify a stereotype about a group of people different than yourself…

Small group:

1. Identify some stereotypes of indigenous people that you have heard

Entire class:

2. Why are stereotypes false?

3. Why are stereotypes hurtful?

COATES’ DEFINITIONS (8 POINTS) (P. 13)

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COATES DEFINITION CONTINUED (P 13-14)5.

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CLASS DEFINITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

23 AUGUST 2012Indigenous People are:

And why do definitions matter anyway?

Why define some people but not others?

INDIGENOUS ROLES IN HISTORY

SG: What role have indigenous people played in North Carolina History?

What role have Native Americans played in US History?

What role have indigenous people played in world history?

Why are cultures different around the world?

Do indigenous cultures differ from cultures of European descent?

C. CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SITUATION1. Outsider views of indigenous peoples

2. Changing western views of indigenous peoples and cultures

3. Anthropologist Franz Boas: positive, distinctive descriptions of indigenous people

4. Simplistic evolutionary descriptions are no longer valid

5. Victims of Progress or Historical Actors? (John Bodley)

6. Strong political force in many nations

D. THEMES IN GLOBAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY1. How do we account for the survival of indigenous people?

2. Attraction of Cultural demise, inevitability of cultural demise

3. What is your ancestry?

4. Has your ancestral culture changed?

5. Haven’t all cultures changed throughout history?

6. Cultural change and not death?

7. Forces threatening indigenous peoples and cultures?

8. So why are we still sad when native cultures change?

STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN FILM1. Warriors of the Amazon: Yanomami

2. Pocahontas

3. Smoke Signals

Identify popular stereotypes of indigenous people exemplified in these film clips

F. CONCLUSIONS

Indigenous People

Identity

Definitions

Stereotypes

Presence in World History