Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Ethiopians and the Q’eros people of the Peruvian Andes against the pressures of religious conflicts and climate change.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.
This award-winning documentary sheds new and positive insight on the importance of indigenous knowledge for conservation and how indigenous commerce could save the mighty Amazon rainforest.
The Tundra Book provides a rare and poetic glimpse into a man determined to preserve his people’s ancient culture, beliefs, and traditions.
This award-winning film portrays Canada’s indigenous Inuit community and its dependence on eider down, in the face of dwindling eider duck populations as a result of man-made development.
The aim of this paper is to encourage conservation and prevent further deterioration around the traditional villages of Tlajomulco, Mexico by making more widely known the rich cultural landscape and the know-how of the inhabitants that has contributed to its conservation.
This paper documents features of the traditional systems of shamilat van or forest commons in the Siwalik forests of the Punjab and analyses their contribution to the agro-ecosystems of both local agriculturalists and pastoralists and the reciprocal system of rights, rules, and responsibilities devised by the users to ensure the survival of the forests.
Clapperton evaluates three existing frameworks for understanding Indigenous and non-Indigenous claims to know the environment. While each framework has its strengths, they reinforce a binary between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge and keep salvage paradigms of Indigenous knowledge alive. Clapperton calls for an enlarged definition of Indigenous knowledge that could account for boundary-crossing and Indigenous people “doing” science.
Through interdisciplinary work in the circumpolar north, About the Hearth refocuses on issues of material culture and social organization in indigenous and local communities. In the process, it makes some compelling ethnographic and theoretical arguments.