Anthropology Test 4 Ch 14

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The Lapps

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(pastoralists) – Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns have expanded northward, displacing these native herders.

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The San of Africa

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(foragers) – have lost most of their land to immigrant Europeans and Bantu-speaking peoples.

Front 3

The Yanomamö of Brazil

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(foragers/horticulturalists) – in the 1970s, Brazil began opening up its Amazon frontiers for the purpose of mineral, timber, grazing, and agricultural exploitation.

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Indigenous rights are often violated in the name of “the Greater Good,” or by those who just want to make money.

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Front 5

Peruvian Indians taught Europeans how to treat malaria using part of the bark of the

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cinchona tree (quinine).

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Madagascar periwinkle

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used in folk medicine to treat diabetes, researchers have discovered it works well with treating childhood leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, and a few other cancers.

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Curare

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a poison used by South American Indians while hunting has become an important medical muscle relaxant.

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Ancient Greeks and North American Indian tribes used what to treat pain and fever?

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willow bark

Front 9

How many more plants being used by indigenous peoples could be medically effective?

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Front 10

amaranth

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a grain with incredibly high protein content.