From the earliest beginnings of european colonialism, the shamanic knowledge, astrological knowledge, healing and medicinal knowledge as well as the histories of the lands of indigenous peoples, have suffered the misinterpretations and distortions of eurocentric anthropologists and archaeologists who twisted and reconstructed the ancient practices of the peoples to support the ideologies of social darwinism. Today these same forms of indigenous knowledge and practice are being reappropriated and reinvented by new age apologists whose global trade as the harbingers of salvation in a world on the brink of destruction sustains them in a lifestyle derived from spiritual and materialist greed while simultaneously disavowing the materialism of modern capitalism. It is as though, faced with the resurgence and renewal of indigenous communities throughout the world and the reassertion of fundamental indigenous rights and the enshrining of these rights within international treaties and covenants, certain elements within the non-indigenous community at large are impelled to seek new ways of asserting their domination over indigenous peoples.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:38:08 +0000
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