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Szkoła jako sposób zdobywania dóbr (Indianie E’ñepá, Amazonia wenezuelska)
Subtitle:School as a way of acquiring goods (E’ñepá Indians, Venezuelan Amazonia) ; Etnografia Polska 60 Z. 1-2 (2016)
Creator: Publisher:Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Description: Type of object: Subject and Keywords:E’ñepá Indians ; school ; material goods ; cultural change ; White people ; Amazonia ; Indian teachers
Abstract:This article analyses how material, industrially produced, goods are acquired through schools by E’ñepá Indians in Venezuelan Amazonia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork the author shows how Indians use school goods to build social position in a traditional way. Contrary to a popular hypothesis, school education does not contribute to acculturation – Indian teachers do not become agents of cultural change. They are however persons who are able to familiarize tattó (“White people”) and thereby they take control over the flow of goods from national societies. In this way school becomes a place which represents the abundance of material goods, and the teacher becomes their master and donor
Relation: Volume: Issue: Start page: End page: Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Format: Resource Identifier: Source:IAiE PAN, call no. P 325 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 326 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 327 ; click here to follow the link
Language: Rights: Terms of use:Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms
Digitizing institution:Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Original in:Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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