FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
Sociology & anthropology speaker series continues Nov. 7 at Marshall
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Richard J. Chacon, an associate professor of anthropology at Winthrop University, will speak on Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center (2E28) on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. The presentation and discussion will run from 4 to 6 p.m.
Chacon’s
presentation, part of the speaker series of Marshall’s department of sociology
& anthropology, is titled “Conservation or Resource Maximization?
Analyzing Subsistence Hunting Among the Achuar of Ecuador.”
In this
presentation, Chacon will discuss findings from his extensive anthropological
fieldwork experience among the indigenous peoples of South America in which he
has employed methodological and theoretical approaches that range from those
basic to the biological and health sciences to studies of the role played in
natural resource use by particular systems of belief and associated ritual
practices.
Chacon will
examine whether observed behavior among the Achuar (and other indigenous groups
of the Americas) can be attributed to Western contact as well as ethical issues
raised by his findings.
Chacon has
conducted anthropological investigations throughout Latin America, documenting
the subsistence patterns and belief systems of the Yanomamö of Venezuela (known
by many as the “Fierce People” through a book of that name by the
anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon), the Yora of Peru and the Achuar (Shiwiar) of
Ecuador. He has also examined ritual violence among the Otavalo and
Cotacachi Indians of Highland Ecuador.
His publications
include: The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on
Environmental Degradation and Warfare (Eds., R. Chacon and R. Mendoza), New
York: Springer (2012); North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual
Violence (Eds., R. Chacon and R. Mendoza), Tucson: University of Arizona
Press (2007); Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
(Eds., R. Chacon and R. Mendoza), Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2007);
and The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians
(Eds., R. Chacon and D. Dye), Springer: New York (2007).
Chacon’s
presentation is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
For more
information, contact Dr. Brian A. Hoey at hoey@marshall.edu.
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