RECIPROCITY AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY AS LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
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| Venue: | FIU MMC Campus, Building AHC5 room 212A |
FIU INDIGENOUS WORKSHOP LED BY DAVID ROBLES FIU Global Indigenous Forum
RECIPROCITY AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY AS LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Tuesday, March 26, 2018. 6:00 to 8:00 pm FIU MMC Room AHC5 Room 212A.
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The Indigenous workshop is just one of the Global Indigenous Forum’s university-wide efforts to support Indigenous students, and those with an interest in Indigenous peoples, to excel at FIU. Led by a student or faculty member, the purpose is to discuss a specific topic relating to ways of succeeding in academia while building respectful and ethical relationships with Indigenous communities. These informal conversational workshops are open to all students and faculty from departments and disciplines across the University.
This second GIF Indigenous Workshop is led by David Robles, a doctoral student in the Global and Sociocultural Studies program. David just returned from Columbia where he researches the relationship the Wayuu have with water, water infrastructure and non-Wayuu water and development organizations.
Reciprocity, the non-market exchange of goods and services, and cultural relativity, understanding another culture on its own terms, are important anthropological concepts learned from working with indigenous peoples. Based on research carried out among the Wayuu people of northern Colombia between 2012-2018, I discuss how reciprocity and cultural relativity are key components for working with indigenous peoples. With examples from my fieldwork and from those in attendance, I hope to debate the pros and cons of each. These two concepts not only offer practical lessons to embrace in fieldwork and everyday living, but also serve as a critique to globalization, neoliberal capitalism and many global and local problems we face today stemming from ethnocentrism.
Organized by the FIU Global Indigenous Forum. Co-sponsored by the student clubs GIG, Global Indigenous Group, and SAGGSA, Sociology-Anthropology-Geography Graduate Student Association.
