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Kweh omateru,<BR>
(greetings friends.)<BR>
thanks for all these resources<BR>
this is a language egroup with very great leads and info!<BR>
but culture and language are really inseperatable so anthropology will wade in<BR>
and sometimes set its OWN standards. As tribal members we need to be careful.<BR>
Sometimes all this “professional intelligence” creates its own language, laws and bi-laws.<BR>
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Years ago visiting Chaco Canyon one weekend I was curious about the pottery found in the area.The<BR>
resource person I asked stated no one was certain if pottery was actually made in the canyon .<BR>
Later that day, I scooped out a handful of clay out of a park rangers muddy tire track,<BR>
sat on a boulder and made a pot...since its what I do anyway.Camping that evening I burnished it with <BR>
a socket from my socket wrench set,and by morning it was dry ...hey, great clay!<BR>
I went to the visitors center and looked for someone to talk to. <BR>
I set it on the desk ...and for the next hour I was interogated with suspicion and rudeness.<BR>
I had hoped to converse with an archaeologist, but he would not even show his face. <BR>
He only would send instructions to the desk as to what to do with this “situation”.<BR>
Finally, I was told I would NOT be prosecuted if I returned to the place where I picked out the mud <BR>
and place the little pot where it could erode back into the soil.<BR>
I am a very patient person,even my wife will tell you! But I was burning up.<BR>
So...i realized something that day<BR>
Anthropology/Archeaology can create a culture of its own. <BR>
It can set itself up to be only correct view to observe and learn and to even to teach.<BR>
even set up its own ”police force” to deal with nonconformists<BR>
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I’m not against anthropology(some of my best friends are anthropologists! seriously!) <BR>
But as a science it tends to set up its own grids from which to pass OUR cultures through.<BR>
Anthropology itself, as an alien science needs to be studied...evaluated...by native peoples<BR>
“what makes an anthropologist” might make a good study ..turn the tables a little. <BR>
what makes outsiders come study us?<BR>
NOW, that would make an interesting thesis!<BR>
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Oh ,I know,no need to remind me,<BR>
I know why Chaco Canyon must be strict,its obvious,because of all the tourists coming through.<BR>
”if everyone came and took a piece of mud out of the tire track...” yeah...yeah... <BR>
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this is not meant to stir up arguments or justifications,<BR>
paint one people good and another bad<BR>
no , I just want to share a little <BR>
from experiance and cautions gained<BR>
richard<BR>
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I want to share something that happened to me that makes me worry sometimes<BR>
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