46 research outputs found
Modos de vida e modos de beber de jovens indĂgenas em um contexto de transformaçÔes
Discourses, Power Negotiations and Indigenous Political Organization in Forest Partnerships: The Case of Selva de Matavén, Colombia
A Habermasian perspective on joint meaning making online: What does it offer and what are the difficulties?
Planting coconuts in Indian villages: ethnoecological aspects and evaluation of a "sustainable development" project
Toward conservational anthropology: addressing anthropocentric bias in anthropology
Anthropological literature addressing conservation and development often blames 'conservationists' as being neo-imperialist in their attempts to institute limits to commercial activities by imposing their post-materialist eco-ideology. The author argues that this view of conservationists is ironic in light of the fact that the very notion of 'development' is arguably an imposition of the (Western) elites. The anthropocentric bias in anthropology also permeates constructivist ethnographies of human-animal 'interactions,' which tend to emphasize the socio-cultural complexity and interconnectivity rather than the unequal and often extractive nature of this 'interaction.' Anthropocentrism is argued to be counteractive to reconciling conservationists' efforts at environmental protection with the traditional ontologies of the interdependency of human-nature relationship