A Woodcutter’s Story: Perceptions and Uses of Mathematics on the San Carlos Apache Reservation

Stevens, Philip

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“…Researchers across settings, for example, noted prominent and problematic tendencies to equate “scientific” and particularly “quantitative/mathematical” with “European/Western.” Such perspectives align well with social scientific critiques of these connections (e.g., Bishop 1990; Hobson 2004; Stevens 2021). Researchers specifically highlighted how this distorting logic works to sustain conventional hierarchies while misrepresenting Indigenous engagements with “science.” Since traditional navigation practices have been a visible focus of Indigenous political and cultural renaissance in Hawai'i since the 1970s (e.g., Low 2013), and then subsequently in other parts of Polynesia like Aotearoa New Zealand (e.g., mentioned in Paine et al.…”

Section: Quantifying Justice: Conducting Epidemiology For Indigenous ...mentioning

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“…Researchers across settings, for example, noted prominent and problematic tendencies to equate "scientific" and particularly "quantitative/mathematical" with "European/Western." Such perspectives align well with social scientific critiques of these connections (e.g., Bishop 1990;Hobson 2004;Stevens 2021). Researchers specifically highlighted how this distorting logic works to sustain conventional hierarchies while misrepresenting Indigenous engagements with "science."…”

Section: Repositioning Quantificationmentioning

confidence: 73%

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Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity

Prussing

2022

American Anthropologist

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A growing body of critical ethnography compellingly demonstrates how "evidencebased" trends are further privileging narrowly construed quantitative statistics, indicators, and metrics in ways that build on widespread cultural assumptions about the alleged objectivity of numerical data. In working to challenge these uncritical and positivist illusions, these studies provide more contextualized understandings and often also advocate for more pluralistic approaches that make use of multiple ways of knowing. Drawing examples from a transnational ethnographic project with epidemiologists who work to promote Indigenous health equity, I call attention here to how postpositivist approaches are already active in quantitative professions, galvanized in part by growing intersections between evidence-based trends and rights/justice advocacy.Closer attention to such pro-equity quantitative work highlights the need to expand the ethnographic questions that anthropologists ask about the relationships between quantification, positivism, and privilege. Such expansion stands to benefit anthropological understandings of knowledge politics in the "evidence-based" era and contributes to ongoing conversations about how to de-center and decolonize ethnographic inquiry. K E Y W O R D Sepidemiology, health equity, knowledge/power, Indigenous activism ResumenUn cuerpo creciente de etnografía crítica demuestra de manera convincente cómo las tendencias "basadas en evidencia" están privilegiando aún más las estadísticas, los indicadores y las medidas cuantitativas construidas limitadamente, en formas que se basan en asunciones culturales generalizadas acerca de la objetividad supuesta de los datos numéricos. Trabajando para retar estas ilusiones acríticas y positivistas, estos estudios proveen entendimientos más contextualizados y a menudo también abogan por aproximaciones más pluralistas que hacen uso de múltiples formas de conocer. Extrayendo ejemplos de un proyecto etnográfico trasnacional con epidemiólogos que trabajan para promover la equidad de salud indígena, llamo la atención aquí sobre cómo las aproximaciones pospositivistas están ya activas en profesiones cuantitativas, galvanizadas, en parte por las intersecciones crecientes entre las tendencias basadas en evidencia y la defensa de los derechos y la justicia. Atención más cercana a tal trabajo cuantitativo proequidad enfatiza la necesidad de expandir las 36

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Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity

Prussing

2022

American Anthropologist

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“…Similar to other research on Indigenous schooling (Sumida Huaman 2020) and Indigenous Knowledge (Brayboy and Maughan 2009;Stevens 2021), Indigenous perspectives emphasize ways knowledge is lived, relational, place-based, and place-accountable. As described by Apache anthropologist Philip J. Stevens, knowledge such as mathematics "is not relegated to the narrow confines of books but rather manifest in all forms of life" (444).…”

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Indigenous Mexican Teachers and Decolonial Thinking: Enacting Pedagogies of Reclamation

Anthony‐Stevens

Buitron

2022

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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This paper examines the ways Indigenous Mexican educators navigate paradoxical institutional and community discourses around Indigenous language and cultural reclamation as negotiated forms of survivance and decolonial thinking in and around schools. Using ethnographic and Indigenous methodologies, we focus on the experiences of elementary education teachers from the states of Oaxaca and Puebla to highlight the sophisticated ways Indigenous educators figure ideological and implementational spaces of Indigenous persistence.

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“…Most of the coursework and assessment are centered on the subjects that would provide children a “portal to a better and successful life,” as the lead teacher commented. The teachers, school, and the whole system created a hierarchy in which the Hoche language is ranked below the exam-oriented school culture (Stevens, 2021).…”

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Young children’s negotiation of language policies and multilingual curriculum at an ethnic minority elementary school in rural China

Wang

2023

Global Studies of Childhood

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Through interpreting the status of Hoche language and cultural practices from community voices, this ethnographic case study conducted in a minority language school centers on five Han and Hoche ethnic minority children’s positions toward multi-language learning. My research explores how these children negotiate the policies and multilingual curriculum that illuminates the multilayered tensions between local issues and global transformation. Findings indicate that policies situate Hoche as a romantic representation of the past, whereas the narratives I gathered from Hoche and Han children’s attitudes and ideologies about language show that younger generations are oriented toward future opportunities and influenced by globalization. This work contributes to scholarship on the education of minority children during a period of rapid industrialization by extending our understanding of ethnicity, diversity, and inclusivity issues via children’s perspectives. Shedding light onto the lives of Hoche and other ethnic minority children’s language practices, this paper is a call to urgently address power inequities in the ideologies and pedagogies enacted in service of Indigenous reclamation.

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A Woodcutter’s Story: Perceptions and Uses of Mathematics on the San Carlos Apache Reservation

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity

Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity

Indigenous Mexican Teachers and Decolonial Thinking: Enacting Pedagogies of Reclamation

Young children’s negotiation of language policies and multilingual curriculum at an ethnic minority elementary school in rural China

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