I’ve been posting about the Ukrainian presidential runoff elections over at UKR-TAZ, the blog I established in the wake of the 2014 Maidan revolution. (See Four theses on Ukrainian politics and Politics as reality-FB.) The gist of my comments is relevant to the study of social media’s impacts on political and cultural change in general, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
Not ‘uncontacted,’ just ‘free’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, Decolonization, Fourth World, indigenous, uncontacted tribes on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The fuss over Survival International’s “uncontacted tribes” (see my earlier piece) hasn’t ceased — the Huffington Post and others continue to spread the original news largely uncritically. (William at the excellent Integral Options Cafe shared that news, but has now kindly amended his post in response to my own comment regarding it.) Now Greg Downey […]
First contact (again & again)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, anthropology, Decolonization, ethnography, Fourth World, indigenous, photography, uncontacted tribes on February 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to the “Jungles” segment of BBC’s Human Planet series, Survival International’s photos of an “uncontacted tribe” in the Amazon are making the rounds once again — see Environmental Graffiti’s “Images of the Last Uncontacted Tribe on Earth“, Ron Burnett’s “Never Before Seen Footage of an Amazonian Tribe,” and MSNBC’s PhotoBlog. The rhetoric here — […]