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Soon they had funding to build an outpost built atop the Continental Divide, housing a team of border guards, topographers and biologists. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Conservation , Panama , Guna People

Simplified: Following fundraising efforts in the late 1970s, an outpost was built atop the Continental Divide in Panama, housing a team of Guna border guards, top...

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Ben Ryder Howe is a frequent contributor to The Times. 1.000

👤 The New York Times 📋 News Article 🏷️ Journalism , Biography

Simplified: Ben Ryder Howe is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.

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He is the author of photo books “VERDE,” “Darién” and “White Line.” 1.000

👤 The New York Times 📋 News Article 🏷️ Publishing , People , Photography

Simplified: Ben Ryder Howe is the author of the photo books “VERDE,” “Darién,” and “White Line.”

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Three days later, we would learn, a powerful storm swept through, flooding the river and washing the bridge downstream. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Weather , Panama

Simplified: Three days after the author's arrival, a storm flooded the Río Chucunaque and washed away a log bridge that had been built for the Mordí community.

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Some anthropologists, criticizing the sort of ethnography my father’s generation did as continuing the discipline’s extractive, colonialist ways, use the label “salvage anthropology.” 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: Some anthropologists use the label “salvage anthropology” to criticize earlier ethnographic work as being extractive and colonialist.

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He was referring to a controversial report on the humanities last spring called “The State of Scholarship,” commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, which singled out anthropology for “... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: A report titled 'The State of Scholarship,' commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities in the spring of 2026, singled out anthropology for...

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At age 40, he quit the academy. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Anthropology

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin quit academia at age 40.

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When Chapin turned to advocacy, it was already facilitating an influx of colonos — slash-and-burn farmers from western Panama. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , History , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: An offshoot of the Pan-American Highway into the Gunayala territory facilitated an influx of 'colonos' (slash-and-burn farmers from western Panama).

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A group of younger Guna agreed, and in the late 1970s they started pressuring their leaders to fund an organized response. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Activism , Panama , Guna People

Simplified: In the late 1970s, a group of younger Guna people began pressuring their leaders to fund an organized response to the Pan-American Highway offshoot.

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In the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork, set by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922 in “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” the anthropologist arrives on a tropical beach as the boat that brought him s... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Literature , Anthropology

Simplified: Bronislaw Malinowski's 1922 book, “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” sets out a founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork where the anthropologist is l...

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Panama, meanwhile, which has long promised to start construction in the fall, is continuing to push forward aggressively. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: The government of Panama has long promised to start construction on the Interconexión project in the fall of 2026 and is continuing to push the projec...

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Chapin, who also started working with the Guna in the late 1960s, edited a compilation of Guna oral literature that is still widely read, especially by the Guna. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Literature , Anthropology , Guna People

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin started working with the Guna people in the late 1960s and edited a compilation of their oral literature.

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I once interviewed a Panamanian engineer who helped design the route of Pan-American Highway, the segment built in the 1970s at a time when there were no roads in eastern Panama, just jungle. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Infrastructure , Panama

Simplified: The segment of the Pan-American Highway in eastern Panama was constructed in the 1970s.

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Unlike Guna villages along the coast, Mordí sold its precious supply of mahogany, cedar and almendro. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economy , History , Panama

Simplified: The Guna community of Mordí, unlike coastal Guna villages, sold its supply of mahogany, cedar, and almendro trees.

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This arrangement is encouraged by Panamanian law, which was rewritten in 1994 to give Indians control over their own land. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: Panamanian law was rewritten in 1994 to give Indigenous people control over their own land.

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Benjamin Goodman, a U.S.-based legal professional who grew up in Mordí with his Protestant missionary parents and today advises the village on legal issues. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Biography , Panama

Simplified: Benjamin Goodman is a U.S.-based legal professional who grew up in the Panamanian village of Mordí with his Protestant missionary parents and now advi...

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I.W.C. and Zeng did not respond to multiple requests for comment. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Journalism

Simplified: International Woodwork Corporation (I.W.C.) and its owner Guo Jian Zhang Zeng did not respond to multiple requests for comment for the article.

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El Chino, whose name is Guo Jian Zhang Zeng, began working with Mordí in 2006. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: A timber baron known as El Chino, whose name is Guo Jian Zhang Zeng, began working with the Panamanian Indigenous community of Mordí in 2006.

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Zeng’s logging concessions have been repeatedly cited for overcutting. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Environment , Regulation , Panama

Simplified: Logging concessions belonging to Guo Jian Zhang Zeng have been repeatedly cited for overcutting.

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I had some idea of the route, having attempted it once back in 1998 with my father and brother. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 Magazine Article 🏷️ History , Biography , Panama

Simplified: The author, Ben Ryder Howe, attempted to trek the route to Mordí in 1998 with his father and brother.

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