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Item Making Knowledge in a Science of the Social: Origins of Robert Carneiro's Theory of State Formation.(Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2025-01-01) Chernela, JanetItem Talking Culture: Women in the production of community in the northwest Amazon(American Anthropologist, 2003) Chernela, JanetTaking the Northwest Amazon of Brazil as its example, this article argues for the analytic concept of a “speech culture,” combining, but heuristically separating, speech practice and language ideology. In the Northwest Amazon, an ideology of language establishes an equivalence between linguistic performance and descent group belonging. In contrast to the fixed, normative notions of groupness, this article explores the dynamic construction of social relations through women’s ritualized wept greeting speech. In these interactions, linguistic differentiation is countered by the experience of a single speech act based upon shared principles with organized participation in and by different linguistic codes. Through the collaborative nature of the speech act a common ground is produced and revealed. The community in this sense emerges as a cultural artifact whose production is largely the work of women. Through these speech interactions—of similar sentiments and meanings across different linguistic codes—women of the Northwest Amazon construct a community of talk.Item Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Development: The Life of an Indigenous Organization in the Rio Negro of Brazil(2011-01) Chernela, JanetFollowing a successful campaign to end the unlawful practices of trafficking that brought them to Manaus, indigenous Tukanoan women from the Upper Rio Negro established a local indigenous organization with which to plan and manage their own ethno-development, including cultural heritage activities, institution building, revenue development, health and legal services, community, and other initiatives. The case provides an opportunity to explore indigenous ethno-development, a concept at the heart of the theory and practice of Shelton (Sandy) Davis. No seguimento de uma campanha bem sucessida em Manaus para terminar com práticas de tráfego ilegais,mulheres indígenas da tribo Tukano do Alto Rio Negro fundaram uma organização indígena local com o fim de planejar e gerir o seu próprio desenvolvimento etnográfico, incluindo atividades culturais e patrimoniais, reforço institucional, desenvolvimento de rendimentos, serviços de saúde e legais, iniciativas comunitárias e outras. Este caso oferece uma oportunidade para estudar o desenvolvimento etnográfico, um conceito central na teoria e práctica de Shelton (Sandy) Davis.Item Davi Kopenawa Yanomani Interview with Janet Chernela and Address to the American Anthropological Association, Demini Village, Brazil(American Anthropological Association website, 2001-06-07) Kopenawa Yanomami, Davi; Chernela, JanetThis interview was conducted June 7, 2001, in the Yanomami village of Demini, Parima Highlands, Brazil. I invited Davi to participate in what I call "reciprocal interviewing" -- that is, he could interview me as I could interview him. Davi exercises his privilege toward the end of the interview. He understood that he was invited to speak to the American Anthropological Assocation in this interview, and refers to the Association in the course of his talk. Davi and I spoke in Portuguese. The interview was recorded on audio and video-tape, and later translated from tapes into English. Paragraphs, titles, and bracketed comments were added. Since Portuguese is not first language to either of us, it is not clear that the word choices were ideal. In some cases I included Davi's choice of Portuguese term. The words of Davi continue to have resonance beyond the past to include the enterprise of anthropological research, in general. The implications for globalization, cultural rights, and morality, are far-reaching.