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Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:42:12 -0000

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Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts - washingtonpost.com

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:32:35 -0000

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Facebook 'dipping' craze irks pool owners - Telegraph

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:01:04 -0000

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Solar eclipse coming to 'Second Life' | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:24:37 -0000

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AJET 6(2): Cooper (1990) - cognitive load theory and instructional design

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:10:39 -0000

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Faculty - Anthropology at Brown University

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:55:38 -0000

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Bloom's Taxonomy

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:41:30 -0000

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The textbook students built: computer science students challenging the traditional textbook

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:34:21 -0000

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Being created by students for students, this type of textbook can offer tangible advantages. Each of the authors of the textbook have gone through the courses that they are writing about, so presumably they have a better idea of what areas of the course are difficult and can explain in their own words how they got certain concepts to click. Since the students know which materials are covered in the course, they make sure that the necessary sections are covered in the wiki. However, no section gets ignored — as happens often with traditional textbooks.

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Footprints in the Forest: Ecotourism and Altered Meanings in Ecuador's Upper Amazon

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:34:21 -0000

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Ayahuasca: Shamanism Shared Across Cultures by Luis Eduardo Luna

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:30:34 -0000

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Required Reading in Social Media - Regular Geek

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:58:33 -0000

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The Children of Web 2.0

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:31:45 -0000

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The Price of Profits by Zachary Hurwitz

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000

The Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America is the latest and largest in a series of bank-financed schemes to bring "development" to the Amazon Basin—and more trouble to the region's indigenous communities.

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Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America

The Interoceanica Sur highway in Madre de Dios, Peru, is one of the 31 first-stage IIRSA projects that are programmed for completion by the year 2010. The road is financed by the Andean Development Corporation, the Brazilian National Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Peruvian government and is currently under construction.

The Interoceanica project is going to benefit large agricultural interests, not local populations. Local populations are not prepared economically to benefit from the highway, and there’s been no interest from the national or regional government to give us at least a few incentives to prepare us for the highway. If the government doesn’t promote a sustainable vision for our region, what we’re going to see are large trucks passing through here, big businesses from the Brazilian side. There they have a broad vision of expanding spaces for soy cultivation, which is going to affect indigenous peoples, riverside communities, and rural communities. So this is only a capitalistic vision, not a vision that will help the poor populations of our country.

We’ve been informed that there is a new proposal for an executive law that would allow the government to begin a colonization project with agricultural and industrial ends. For the Amazon, this is a threat, because we already live here, we already exist here, so what lands are they going to colonize? This could mean land invasions, conflicts between agricultural interests and indigenous people, so this proposal for new law worries us, and we’ve rejected it through the Alliance of Federations here in Madre de Dios.

The Madeira Hidrovia Complex is one of the most controversial projects included in the Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure of South America. The Hidrovia plans include the construction of five hydroelectric dams (two in Bolivia and three in Brazil) along the Madeira river, to facilitate transporting soy from the southern city of Porto Velho to Manaus for export.

For the Parintintin of western Brazil, who depend on the river for their livelihood and culture, the hydroelectric dams proposed by the Madeira complex are a serious threat. As cacique (chief) Domingos Parintintin points out, mining and logging already exert tremendous pressure on their territory. Hydroelectric dams would offer even more pressure, cutting river water levels, which would threaten the availability and health of fish, as well as the Parintintin agricultural plots, which depend on the river’s natural cycles of flooding to restore soil fertility. There would also be increased competition for land and resources, as migrants move in to work in construction and agriculture.

This is 2007; it’s time for things to be different. The government threw a party to celebrate the 500th birthday of Brazil, but we’re against that. Because today you go to any land in Amazônia, and our close relatives, brothers, parents, they’re all buried on that land. How can you celebrate on the land where your relatives are buried?

Our people, in the area of health, we have our own traditions. We make remedies ourselves. We have a part of our culture that knows which medicine to use, which medicines cure, and we pass this on to our people who conserve this knowledge. For example, if you have a bruise, or a cut, we know which treatment to use to cure it. We have remedies for everything. We never give up our culture.

Beyond this, we never let go of our culture. For example, we never give up our traditional clothing. Our people are advancing, but they don’t know how to do everything. We don’t know how to do everything at the beginning of something new, but we’re advancing. There are some things about our culture that I can’t speak about, because they are secrets. This goes for other people too. Truthfully, for us as Parintintin, from the time of contact to today, our vision has changed. Today, our people are much more like Brazilians. To us, our people have failed in some parts of our culture. There are things that are changing our own culture as indigenous people. We speak two languages. In the case of my village, we speak our own language and Portuguese. But we never give up our culture. I’m not an enemy of Brazil, I’m an indigenous man, but the question of land invasions, the question of mining, the question of illegal logging, hunting, fishing, all of this comes back to our people; it causes a problem, a very serious problem.

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Zápara Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:18:30 -0000

IN THIS ARTICLE, I EXPLORE THE PRACTICES of self-representation used by indigenous leaders or dirigentes (as they are often referred to in Spanish) from the Zápara Nationality of Ecuador, one of the smallest indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon. These dirigentes have used indigenous languages, specifically Zápara and Kichwa, to symbolize their authenticity when interacting with non-Zápara outsiders. Zápara dirigentes' emphasis on Zápara and Kichwa as indicators of their communities' legitimacy has been important for creating political space for the Zápara in Ecuador. However, by equating indigenous languages with authenticity, Zápara dirigentes have also partially obscured and invalidated Zápara histories and practices. For example, they have downplayed the use of Spanish in their communities when representing them to outsiders and have highlighted rival indigenous leaders' lack of knowledge of the Zápara language to discredit them. By examining the complexities of these dirigentes' representational practices, I contribute to a more complex understanding of how indigenous leaders in Latin America have articulated new expressions of indigenous authority and power in their processes of self-representation.

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Media Mingle - What image search should be!

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:09:00 -0000

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PicApp - the best content for the best publishers

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:08:19 -0000

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Stockvault.net | Free Stock Photos and Free Images

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:07:51 -0000

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everystockphoto - searching free photos

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:07:15 -0000

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morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:06:50 -0000

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Wired Campus: Anthropology Professor, Now a YouTube Star, Says Web Video Can Help People Craft Their Identities - Chronicle.com

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:57:51 -0000

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