ABOUT BONDS AND RESTITUTIONS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS AND DURATIONS:

ETHNOGRAPHY, SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR TERRITORIAL RIGHTS

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ABSTRACT:
I consider in this essay what one could understand, retrospectively, as the “restitution” of anthropological research with indigenous peoples and traditional communities, based on specific historical and disciplinary contexts, and having as references the notions of expert witness, didactic ethnography (or ethnography as sharing and communication) and implicated anthropology (or engaged, public Anthropology and its variants). I focus on the consequences of a certain type of “devolution” of data for the recognition of territorial rights of indigenous peoples and traditional communities on different time scales. I build on brief descriptions and retrospective insights about my master’s and doctoral research, and the implications that both had for the recognition of the territorial rights of the Tapeba indigenous people, in one case, and
of the riverain agroextractivist dwellers of the areas protected by the Jaú National Park, on the other.


KEYWORDS: Return ofresults. Territorialrights. Engaged Anthropology. Expert witness.

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Tapeba Indigenous Land highlighted in red on the map. Credits: Reproduction/ISA (Socio-Environmental Institute)

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2024-11-19

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Dossier Reflections and practices on the return of research and extension data