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Protecting Cultural Environments in Northern Wisconsin: Anthropology’s Contribution to a Tribal Initiative
In 2012, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians engaged research specialists working in several different fields, including anthropology, the physical sciences, and law. Our assignment was to assemble a report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about air quality on the tribe’s reservation in northern Wisconsin. With this report, the tribe aims to redesignate its reservation’s air quality from Class II to Class I under the “Prevention of Significant Deterioration” provisions of the federal Clean Air Act. Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, conservation, consultancy, engagement, EPA, food, indigenous people, mining, United States, wisconsin
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Gathering Divergent Forest Honeys: Collections and Commodity Flows in the Philippines
When I began researching honey collecting in the Philippines, I never anticipated that making visual collections of objects and images associated with marketing honey was going to become a powerful way of stimulating discussion about my study. But the clues were there all along. Collections are things brought together, in so many senses of the term. Such assemblages have a capacity for telling stories about how different products make their ways through the world, and into our homes, bodies and lives. Continue reading
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Tagged Commodity flows, engagement, food, forestry, indigenous people, NGOs, Non-Timber Forest Products, Philippines, socio-environmental justice
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Settler Colonial Nature in the Everglades
Americans live in a settler colonial society, and this shapes how we understand and engage nature. In the vast expanse of slow-flowing water and drained agricultural lands known as the Florida Everglades, thinking about settler colonialism helps make sense of Burmese python hunts and Seminole water rights, of scientific restoration models and National Park policies. Doing so informs my own ethnographic research on the relationship between peoples’ sense of belonging and the ways that they value water in the Everglades. Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, conservation, development, engagement, Florida Everglades, indigenous people, inequality, socio-environmental justice, United States
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