Cannibalisme et mort chez les Guayakis (Achén)

Depuis plusieurs siècles, les Guayakis ont été une source d’étonnement pour les voyageurs, les missionnaires et enfin les ethnologues. Dans les cinquante dernières années on a à plusieurs reprises cherché à étudier les différents groupes épars dans la forêt ; mais les conditions de stabilité permettant une étude systématique n’avaient encore jamais été réunies ; peuple essentiellement nomade, les Guayakis ne se prêtaient pas à l’investigation scientifique en raison de leur extrême mobilité et..

Invertébrés marins du lagon Néo calédonien : 3. Etude structurale de trois nouveaux diterpènes isolés du pennatulaire Cavernulina grandiflora

Three new diterpenes, related to stylatulide but non-balogenated, have been isolated from a new species of sea-pen, Cavernulina grandiflora : cavernuline (1) O-deacetylpropionyl cavernuline (5) and cavernulinine (6). The structures are proposed on the basis of spectral evidence

Characteristics of industrial and laboratory meat and bone meal ashes and their potential applications

This paper reports the characterization of four meat and bone meal (MBM) ashes obtained from specific incineration (laboratory) and from coincineration (industrial process). Three out of the fourMBMashes were mainly composed of calcium phosphates (hydroxyapatite and whitlockite). Their compositions (major and trace) were in the range for natural phosphate rocks. Trace element contents, including heavy metals, were below 0.6% and industrial ashes contained much more heavy metals than laboratory ash. The amounts of leached elements were low, especially for laboratory ash. According to the European classification of waste to be landfilled, the laboratory ash can be classified as an inert waste. Two industrial ashes are mostly inert. Only one ash is highly leachable and needs a stabilization treatment to be classified at least in the category of hazardous waste. It seems, from these results, that possibilities other than landfilling could be considered to give economic value to these ashes. Meat and bone meal ash; Bottom ash; Fly ash; Calcium phosphate; Hydroxyapatite; Whitlockite; Chemical properties; Chemical composition; Heavy metals; Leachin

Translation: The relative native

Translation by Julia Sauma and Martin Holbraad of: Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (2002) "O Nativo Relativo." Mana, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 113-14

Between Will and Thought: Individualism and Social Responsiveness in Amazonian Child Rearing

This essay provides an ethnographic account of how moral dispositions towards independence and social responsiveness are forged during infancy and toddlerhood among the Runa, an indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I will show how two local concepts, munay (will) and yuyay (thought) shape children’s early experiences of the self and the self in relation to others. In particular, I will argue that, unlike middle class Anglo-Americans who repute paternal responsiveness to be necessary for a “healthy” child development, Runa adults strategically chose not to respond to children’s will in order to make them “thoughtful”. Such state of thoughtfulness, I argue, emerges from socialization practices which stress a child’s unique will while at the same time forcefully encourage the development of social responsiveness