Janet Chernela's research while affiliated with University of Maryland, College Park and other places
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Publications (10)
This article considers a set of postcards purchased in the Amazonian city of Manaus between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The cards upend the prominent narrative suggested in most visual imagery of the period that depicts the Amazon basin as a wilderness peopled with uncivilized natives. The postcards, instead, portray a techno...
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Enquanto a maior parte da literatura sobre populações indígenas enfatiza o apego aos lugares, tomando qualquer movimento fora dos territórios tradicionais como uma perda de identidade, o caso da mobilidade das mulheres Tukano do Alto Rio Negro para a cidade de Manaus, no Brasil, ilustra a importância da mobilidade e agilidade, mais que perm...
Despite widespread recognition of the importance of community-conservation partnerships, problems continue to emerge. In this paper we examine one such interaction to propose that outside organisations have wrongly associated the delimitations of the habitational space with the extent of community allegiances and moral economies. Such oversights ca...
A fundamental challenge in conversations made at the frontiers of globalization is the degree to which international representatives and local interlocutors understand one another. Decisions made at such "glocalized" sites of interaction (Brenner 1998) may hinge on issues of communication about which we know very little. Yet social scientists, who...
In constructing "texts of the self" in spontaneous song, Wanano women draw on rhetorical and grammatical devices to distance and defl ect themselves from the impact of their utterances. Through attributing words to others, the number of contributing voices is multiplied, as the animator's (singer's) own dominance is performatively diminished. A fra...
Speakers of Wanano, an Eastern Tukanoan language, strategically combine the rhetorical dialogic device of reported speech, one type of “voicing,” with choice of a grammatical evidential to indicate a speaker's relationship to the information conveyed, in order to expand available repertoires of knowledge, agency, and responsibility. By complicating...
While analysts and practitioners today recognize that heritage entails processes of both "preservation" and "innovation," most face challenges when it comes to finding methodologies capable of capturing these apparently contradictory and elusive attributes. The problem lies, in part, in reconciling notions of a stable, authorized past, on the one h...
Despite advancements in the design and implementation of ecotourism, the educational component of ecotourism has received little attention in comparison to ecological, economic and other social factors. This article discusses the unexplored conventions of education as a form of empowerment in ecotourism through the case study of a pilot ecotourism...
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... Yet perhaps most pertinent to the present discussion is the inherent educational value of ecotourism in these settings. Scholars have highlighted opportunities for "learning both ways" between hosts and guests in Indigenous ecotourism settings in the Amazon [64,72,73]. In addition to the obvious potential of ecotourism to provide education about cultural heritage of ethnic Amazonian communities [64,74,75], the diversification of the overall interpretive portfolio available for tour guides and businesses can translate into greater "length of stay" and thus earning potential of Indigenous tourism ventures. ...
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... Carbon credits represent this distraction. Meanwhile, the rhetoric of international conservation NGOs, UNFCCC's COP, and countless academics is that carbon credits are the main game (Soares-Filho et al., 2006;Chernela 2014). ...
... Over the past decade several researchers have documented the experiences of Ethiopian immigrants, mainly in the United States. Ethiopian immigrants' indelible contributions to the receiving country (particularly their entrepreneurship, transnational place-making, and involvement in community building), have received some attention from scholars (Chacko 2016;Mohammed 2006;Chernela et al. 2009;Habecker 2012;Chacko and Cheung 2010). In the immigrants' relation to their connections with Ethiopia, however, there is an intriguing undercurrent. ...
... The aim was to break away from the traditional view of the participation of Indigenous peoples in history either as limited to resisting domination solely to maintain frozen traditions or as being engaged in peaceful acculturation, a view that was entrenched in history through the lens of an "ethnology of losses and cultural absences" (Almeida 2012;Monteiro 2001;Oliveira Filho 2004:31). From the 1980s onward, a new Brazilian academic tradition highlighted a much more complex history of contact, permeated by the negotiation and agency of Indigenous peoples (Almeida 2010(Almeida , 2012(Almeida , 2013Carvalho Jr. 2000, 2005, 2007, 2011Cunha 1992Cunha , 2009Farage 1991;Garcia 2009;Monteiro 1994Monteiro , 2001Monteiro , 2007Montero 2006;Oliveira Filho 1979, 2004, 2015Sampaio 2003Sampaio , 2009Sampaio , 2010Sampaio , 2014. Scholars abroad also benefited from the debates raised by Brazilian researchers (Harris 2010;Langfur 2009Langfur , 2014Sommer 2000). ...
... Though prior literature acknowledged diversity in regional practices based on 'situational constraints', assessments of 'convenience', 'politeness' and other considerations (Jackson, 1974 p. 58;Sorensen, 1967 p. 678-79;Chernela, 2013 p. 202), systematic departures from ideologically-driven normative behaviors in the region have only begun to receive analytic attention (e.g. Chernela, 2003Chernela, , 2011Chernela, , 2012, on ritualized speech genres; Aikhenvald, 2001;Stenzel and Khoo, 2016;Silva and AnderBois, 2016;Silva, 2020). Our goal is to provide further insights into actual linguistic practice in these multilingual communities (as observable in recorded interaction) and how it relates to documented ideologies. ...
... It has also produced a wealth of public information in the form of guidebooks, many of which are available for free download (Campos Filho 2009a, 2009b. Also, the multiethnic Upper Rio Negro region has been fertile in the development and promotion of community associations promoting ethnobiological knowledge, production, and marketing, some of which have succeeded at breaking into the North American and European commodities markets (Chernela 2011;Garnelo and Baré 2009). ...
... Though prior literature acknowledged diversity in regional practices based on 'situational constraints', assessments of 'convenience', 'politeness' and other considerations (Jackson, 1974 p. 58;Sorensen, 1967 p. 678-79;Chernela, 2013 p. 202), systematic departures from ideologically-driven normative behaviors in the region have only begun to receive analytic attention (e.g. Chernela, 2003Chernela, , 2011Chernela, , 2012, on ritualized speech genres; Aikhenvald, 2001;Stenzel and Khoo, 2016;Silva and AnderBois, 2016;Silva, 2020). Our goal is to provide further insights into actual linguistic practice in these multilingual communities (as observable in recorded interaction) and how it relates to documented ideologies. ...
... Sustainable tourism in relation to ecotourism promotes the achievement of a balanced approach in utilising natural resources for development initiatives and emphasises the conservation efforts by the tourists and the local community. Zanotti and Chernela (2010) opined that ecotourism can be considered as a perfect tool to foster biodiversity conservation and benefit the surrounding local communities if it is on a small scale and is locally managed. Similarly, the current study revealed that ecotourism has transformed the local community's way of thinking to become aware of the importance of the conservation of the environment in Sukau. ...
