Comments on: Still Hearing Anna’s Voice /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Kerim /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-286027 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:38:50 +0000 /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/#comment-286027 There was some good discussion about these issues on this post from 2006.

]]> By: Adam /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-282762 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:59:11 +0000 /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/#comment-282762 So, not for nothing, but when I went hunting the web for more info on that volume to which you linked, Amazon offered me an advertisement for “indigenous ring-tones.” Any takers?

]]> By: lmichael /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-282047 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:08:56 +0000 /2008/04/09/still-hearing-annas-voice/#comment-282047 And it’s certainly not just indigenous individuals like Mick Dobson that are struck by the similarities in the situations faced by indigenous peoples across the world — and through time. I recently heard a talk given by Bill Hanks on the interactions between Mayas and Fransiscan missionaries in the Yucatan in the 16th and 17th centuries, and I was amazed by the similarities between the situation he described and what is going on right now – four to five centuries later – in many parts of the Amazon basin.

On a more substantive note, I wonder if the difficulties to which you allude in defining the notion of ‘indigenous(ness)’ are a reflection that this is a *radial* category but not a classical category. That it, the category has a number of typifying central characteristics, but no singly necessary or sufficient conditions. (It may be helpful to think about this in terms of the category of ‘mother’, which is also a radial category.)

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