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Re: Indigenous folks protect environment?Hugh Jarvis (ANTOWNER@UBVM.BITNET)Thu, 13 Oct 1994 21:04:58 EDT
for reasons that perhaps are of interest. It's not on the the- oretical plane, particularly; there are other ethnicities that have even longer traditions of subsistence economies, marginal- ity to hegemonic polities, minority linguistic status, and so on. However, on a pragmatic level, it's the Saami, among Europeans, who keep getting invited to Fourth World political action con- ferences, whose photographs appear in journalistic coverage of protests against mines and dams, and whose folkways receive mention in academic publications. There are good reasons for this, but they're not just the superficial ones. I suggest, therefore, that a closer and explicitly comparative look at the Saami might reward those interested in how "Western society" evaluates ethnicity, resource management, and cognition. It is not only such groups, however, that can be said to develop local resource management strategies. There are Japanese cooperatives, small community access rules in Lofoten, Norway and in the outports of Newfoundland, Canada, just to name a few. I can supply references for those who may be interested. Trish Clay pclay@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu Cameron Laird ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/home.html claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 996 8546 _________________ANTHRO-L LISTOWNER_________________ Journal of World Anthropology Editors antowner@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Please note: messages posted on anthro-l reflect the opinions of those who posted them, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the listowners, the Department of Anthropology, or the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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