Object structure
Title:

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:

Buliński, Tarzycjusz

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2016

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

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:

Etnografia Polska

Volume:

60

Issue:

1-2

Start page:

63

End page:

82

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0071-1861

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:

pol

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

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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