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Staff Seminar Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology Leiden Natural Monuments or Cultural Landscapes in Guiana Renzo Duin (Archeology, Leiden) October 7, 2013: 15.30-17.00 Venue: Room 5A42 Natural Monuments or Cultural Landscapes in Guiana (northern south America) Ten years ago, Dr. Michael J. Heckenberger in collaboration with Amazonian indigenous people published an article in Science (301(5640): 1710-1714) titled “Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?” Today, Dr. Renzo S. Duin poses the same question, albeit slightly altered, for the interior of Guiana. Is the interior of Guiana a natural monument or a cultural landscape? ... The answer is yes. The Upper Maroni Basin, frontier zone between Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil is a case par excellence to study the dynamic, multifaceted, and historically situated interrelationships between various nation states and its related territoriality, the conceptualization of “pristine nature” to be conserved and protected by various national parks, the question of indigenousness, and how indigenous peoples are situated in the meshwork of an ever-globalizing world. Rather than providing answers, this talk is intended to raise awareness of this complexity and carry on the multi-disciplinary dialogue to one of the least known regions of Amazonia. ……… Renzo S. Duin is a postdoctoral researcher (VENI) in Amazonian archaeology and anthropology, with a regional focus on the Guianan frontier zone of Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil. Since 1996, Dr. Duin has conducted fieldwork among the Wayana in Guiana, where he observed an integrated and ranked regionality grounded in a ritual economy. An interdisciplinary approach and multi-scalar theoretical framework—in conjunction with a shift of the unit of analysis from the village to the relations between settlements—was necessary to recognize the recorded patterned processes. Renzo Duin’s VENI project "Beauty and the Feast" examines the role of feasting for regional cohesion in non-complex societies. Archaeologists and anthropologists often regard the villages of the indigenous peoples of the Guiana Highlands as autonomous units. As a result, historical and regional processes of socio-political cohesion remain underexposed.