PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
ABOUT THE NGÖBE
by Philip D. Young
Publications
2001 The Ngóbe of Western Panama (with John R. Bort). In Susan C. Stonich, ed., Endangered Peoples of Latin America, pp. 121-136. Endangered Peoples of the World Series, Barbara Rose Johnston, series editor. Westport, CT: The Greenwood Press.1993 Etdebali: Un Viaje al Corazón del Pueblo Ngóbe. [Etdebali: A Journey to the Heart of the Ngóbe people] Serie "Nuestro Modo de Ser," Colección "Mundo Ngóbe." Panama: Acción Cultural Ngóbe (ACUN), Comarca Ngóbe-Buglé
1990 "The puzzle of Ngóbére auxiliaries: Grammatical reconstruction in Chibchan and Misumalpan" (with T. Givón). In W. Croft, K. Denning, & S. Kemmer, eds., Studies in Typology and Diachrony for Joseph H. Greenberg, pp. 209-243.
1986 Ngawbere Numeral Classifiers. In S. DeLancey and R. Tomlin, eds., Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, pp. 489-502.
1985 Economic and Political Adaptations to National Development Among the Guaymí (with J. R. Bort) Anthropological Quarterly 58(1):1-12.
1985 Guaymí Socionatural Adaptations. In W. G. D'Arcy & Mireya D. Correa A., eds., The Botany and Natural History of Panama: La Botánica e Historia Natural de Panamá, pp. 357-65. St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden.
1983 El Matrimonio Tradicional Guaymí. Revista Lotería No. 324-325. Panama.
1982 New Roles for Males in Guaymi Society (with J. R. Bort). In C. & F. Loveland, eds., Sex Roles and Social Change in Native Lower Central American Societies. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press.
1980 Introduction (pp. 4-6) in E. S. Alphonse Reid, Grammatica Guaymi. Panama: Talleres Dialogo.
1980 Notes on Guaymi Traditional Culture. In O. F. Linares and A. J. Ranere, eds., Adaptive Radiations in Prehistoric Panama. Peabody Museum Monographs, No. 5, pp. 224-232.
1980 Marañon: A Report of Ethnographic Research Among the Bocas Guaymi. In O. F. Linares and A. J. Ranere, eds., Adaptive Radiations in Prehistoric Panama. Peabody Museum Monographs, No. 5, pp. 491-498.
1980 Plan Guaymi: Perceptual Divergences. Practicing Anthropology 2(5/6):7-8 & 20.
1979 The Politicization of the Guaymi (with J. R. Bort). Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 11(1):73-110.
1978 La Trayectoria de una Religión: El Movimiento de Mama Chi entre los Guaymíes y sus Consecuencias Sociales. La Antigua 11:45-75. Panama: Universidad Santa María La Antigua
1978 Los Rituales Guaymíes: Perspectivas Simbólicos y Culturales. Revista Patrimonio Histórico 2(1):7-38. Panama: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Dirección Nacional del Patrimonio Histórico.
1977 Etebali: La Relación de Hermandad Ritual entre los Guaymíes (with J. R. Bort). Translated from the English by O. Serritella and P. D. Young. Technical Note. Panama: Inter-American Literacy Foundation.
1977 Brief Notes on the Guaymi. Technical Note. Washington, DC: Inter-American Literacy Foundation.
1976 The Expression of Harmony and Discord in a Guaymi Ritual: The Symbolic Meaning of Some Aspects of the Balseria. In M. Helms and F. Loveland, eds., Frontier Adaptations in Lower Central America, pp. 37-53. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Inc.
1976 Edabali: The Ritual Sibling Relationship among the Western Guaymi (with J. R. Bort). In P. D. Young and J. Howe, eds., Ritual and Symbol in Native Central America, pp. 77-90. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers, No. 9. Eugene: University of Oregon Press.
1975 Guaymi Nativism: Its Rise and Demise. Proceedings of the XLI International Congress of Americanists, Vol. 3, pp. 93-101. Mexico, D.F.
1971 Ngawbe: Tradition and Change Among the Western Guaymi of Panama. Illinois Studies in Anthropology No. 7. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press..
1970 A Structural Model of Ngawbe Marriage. Ethnology 9(1):85-95.
1970 Notes on the Ethnohistorical Evidence for Structural Continuity in Guaymi Society. Ethnohistory 17(1/2):11-29.
1968 The Ngawbe: An Analysis of the Economy and Social Structure of the Western Guaymi of Panama. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International
1965 Nota Sobre Afinidades Lingüísticas entre
Bogotá y Guaymí Sabanero. Hombre y Cultura
1(4):20-26. Panama.
Unpublished Papers
Ms [July, 2009] Women's roles and responses to
globalization in Ngöbe-Buglé communities.
Ms [August, 2007] Ngöbe Cultural Survival in the
Twenty-first Century: Four Challenges.
Reports
2008 Report of visit to Ngöbe communities in the vicinity of
proposed Chan 75 hydroelectric
dam on the Rio Changuinola, Province of Bocas del Toro, Republic of
Panama. Prepared for
Cultural Survival, Inc. (CS) and Alianza para la Conservación y
el Desarrollo (ACD) [Published in the on-line edition of Burica Press,
Panama por Dentro, April 10, 2008]
2008 Negociando con los Ngöbe: Consideraciones Culturales. Informe Suplementario. (Also available in English) Prepared as an Addendum to the CS/ACD petition on behalf of the Ngöbe requesting precautionary measures submitted to the Inter-American Council on Human Rights.
1983 Open letter to Ricardo de la Espriella, President of the Republic of Panama, regarding the territorial and human rights of the Guaymi. Published in Pasos en la Lucha: Documentos de la Lucha Guaymí desde el Congreso de Soloy de 1980 hasta Alto de Jesus 1983.
Papers presented at conferences
2009 Hydroelectric Power and Indigenous Rights in Panama: The Ngöbe Case. Paper presented in the session "Social Justice and Human Rights Activism in Latin America" at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, March 17-21.
2004 "A New Era or More of the Same for the Ngöbe-Buglé" (with John R. Bort). Paper presented in the panel session "Inclusive Democracy-Building in Multicultural States: Cases from Panama" at the XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004.
2003 "Indigenous Peoples, Environment, and Development in Panama: Laws, Policies and Realities" (with Stefanie Wickstrom). Paper presented at session "Globalization, Collaboration and Social Impact: Bridging the Gaps," Annual Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, Oregon, March 2003.
2000 "Indigenous Practices, Environmental Law, and Economic Development in Panama: Is Sustainability Possible?" (with Stefanie Wickstrom). Paper presented at the session "Indigenes, Indigenists, Environmentalists, and Human Rights: Compatibilities and Incompatibilities, Environmental and Advocacy Anthropology" (Invited session co-sponsored by the AAA Anthropology and Environment Section and the Committee for Human Rights). 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, 2000, San Francisco, CA.
2000 "Cooperation and manipulation in the society of intimates" (with Tom Givón). Paper presented at the Symposium on Causatives and Interpersonal Manipulation, Rice University, Houston, TX, April 7-9.
1998 "Implications of the New Ngóbe Comarca in Western Panama." (with John R. Bort) Paper presented at the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies in Savannah, Georgia.
1997 "Evolving Political Structures and the Ngóbe-Buglé Comarca of Western Panama." (with John R. Bort) Paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 19-23, 1997, Washington, DC.
1996 "Social Movements and Societal Restructuring in a Culture of the Periphery: The Ngöbe of Panama from 1960 to the Present. Paper presented at the International Studies Association-West Regional Conference, Eugene, OR, October.
1996 "Ngóbe Agroecological Crisis and Response: Cultural Survival in a Changing World." (with John R. Bort) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, MD.
1994 "Trust and Cooperation in the Society of Intimates." (with Tom Givón) Paper presented at Conference on Trust, sponsored by University of Oregon Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, November 4-5, 1994.
1988 Ngóbére Auxiliaries, paper presented at the 87th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
1987 From Ergative to Active in Guaymí, paper presented at the 86th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
1987 Ergativity in Ngawbere, paper presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, Eugene, Oregon.
1986 Ngawbere Numeral Classifiers, paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.