""Good fish get dull but sex is always fun."" So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals-especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies-the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. ""If we look carefully,"" writes Gregor, ""we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazoni
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Seit 1998 werden von der Botanischen Vereinigung für Naturschutz in Hessen Artenhilfsprogramme für Pflanzenarten betrieben, für die das Bundesland Hessen innerhalb der Bundesrepublik Deutschland besondere Verantwortung trägt. Bisher wurden Allium strictum (seit 2001), Campanula baumgartenii (seit 1998), Carex hordeistichos (seit 2001), Cnidium dubium (seit 2001), Festuca duvalii (seit 1998), Mibora minima (seit 1999), Moenchia erecta (seit 1999), Scleranthus verticillatus (seit 1999), Spergula pentandra (seit 2000) und Veronica acinifolia (seit 2001) in das Programm aufgenommen. Nach einer gründlichen Aufarbeitung historischer Daten werden bekannte und potentielle Fundorte der erfassten Arten mit einer standardisierten Methodik bearbeitet. Aus der jeweiligen Vorkommenssituation werden Schutzmaßnahmen abgeleitet, an deren Umsetzung eine Vielzahl von Personen und Institutionen beteiligt ist. ; Since 1998 the BVNH (Botanical Association for Nature Conservation in Hesse) is conducting species recover projects with the focus on species for which Hesse has a high responsibility in the German context. So far Allium strictum (since 2001), Campanula baumgartenii (since 1998), Carex hordeistichos (since 2001), Cnidium dubium (since 2001), Festuca duvalii (since 1998), Mibora minima (since 1999), Moenchia erecta (since 1999), Scleranthus verticillatus (since 1999), Spergula pentandra (since 2000) and Veronica acinifolia (since 2001) have been included in the program. For these species the historical data are collected. Known and potential sites are investigated using a standardized method. For each site a conservation-strategy is developed. Conservation measures are conducted by various private and governmental organizations. ; Depuis 1998 l'Association botanique pour la protection de la nature en Hesse a mis sur pied un programme de soutien aux espèces, en particulier pour les plantes pour lesquelles, dans le cadre de l'Allemagne fédérale, le Land de Hesse a endossé une responsabilité toute spéciale. Jusqu'à présent ont été inclus dans ce programme Allium strictum (depuis 2001), Campanula baumgartenii (depuis 1998), Carex hordeistichos (depuis 2001), Cnidium dubium (depuis 2001), Festuca duvalii (depuis 1998), Mibora minima (depuis 1999), Moenchia erecta (depuis 1999), Scleranthus verticillatus (depuis 1999), Spergula pentandra (depuis 2000) et Veronica acinifolia (depuis 2001). Après une révision étendue des données historiques il sera procédé, grâce à une méthode standardisée, à un relevé des stations connues ou potentielles des espèces concernées. En se basant sur les caractéristiques de chacune des populations, on développera des mesures de protection adéquates auxquelles participera un grand nombre d'organismes tant privés qu'officiels.
The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia. Stephen Hugh‐Jones.From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia. Christine Hugh‐Jones.
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. The contributors illuminate the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond
The American Anthropological Association's investigation of the charges in Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney 2000) found that the late James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon harmed the Yanomami in the course of their research in Venezuela and Brazil, and that Chagnon had violated the ethics code of the association. The association's inquiry contravened its own policy prohibiting ethics adjudications and was structured not by the standards of an objective investigation but by aspects of contemporary anthropology. Moralized approaches to information and postmodern rejection of objectivity mark the language and methods of the inquiry. The investigating task force did not observe reasonable standards of evidence, the targets of the investigation were not represented, and task force members were compromised by conflicts of interest. The investigation and its collateral activities reflect a culture of accusation and an anthropology uncertain of its ethical or scientific stature.
