Anthropology, the indigenous and human rights: Which billiard balls matter most?

Clemmer, Richard O.

doi:10.1177/1463499614528925

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“…To what extent do communities close to the park contribute to ecosystem protection? Recent literature on people and society in Seram, the island of our study, has been dominated by anthropological texts, particularly by Roy Ellen and Valerio Valeri. Often when writing about indigenous peoples, anthropologists are devoted to cultural relativism as opposed to human rights universalism (Clemmer, 2014), and to an ideological preference for cultural conservation rather than societal progress through modernisation (Birx, 2006). As stated by Valeri (2000: 8), his long-lasting and in-depth research among the Huaulu people has been driven by 'a romantic longing for cultural authenticity'.…”

Section: Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Introductionmentioning

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Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Livelihood Security and Nature Conservation in Maluku, Indonesia

Kristiansen

Budiman

Pudyatmoko

2023

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

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This article addresses the challenge of combining ecosystem protection with economic development. The setting is societies living near a national park in a poor and peripheral part of Indonesia. Data from our household survey are used to answer the following questions: Do local communities find secure and sustainable livelihoods in areas surrounding the park? To what extent do communities close to the park contribute to ecosystem protection? We use cluster analysis to group households based on a mapping of livelihood means and outcomes.In-depth interviews complement the statistical data. The study reveals prevailing and widespread poverty combined with non-sustainable livelihoods. People's traditional livings may cause a risk, rather than the solution, to ecosystem protection. Sustained biodiversity and pristine forests may be in contradiction with a maintained economic resource base for an increasing population, and ecosystem degradation does not necessarily evoke traditional social mechanisms for nature protection.

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Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Livelihood Security and Nature Conservation in Maluku, Indonesia

Kristiansen

Budiman

Pudyatmoko

2023

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

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“…Suriname’s ITPs have brought cases detailing their land rights claims against their government before national courts and the Inter American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). Suriname was found guilty by the IACHR of failing to legally recognise the collective land rights of the Saramaka tribal people in 2007 and of the Kaliña and Lokono indigenous communities in 2015 [ 22 , 23 ]. Although the IACHR’s rulings are binding, the court itself lacks an enforcement mechanism.…”

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Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname

Boog

Bulkan

Tansey

et al. 2018

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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BackgroundNon-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been traded for millennia by indigenous communities. Current increased demands driven by globalisation, however, put more pressure on local harvesters and their surrounding ecosystems. The safeguarding of indigenous access rights to harvesting grounds is needed, either through communal land titles or collaborative management agreements, both to secure prior indigenous rights and to minimise further negative ecological impacts.MethodsThis study was carried out in two indigenous communities in West Suriname located along the Corentyne River. We assessed the three economically most important NTFPs for each community. We determined the land tenure status of harvesting grounds and negative impacts on target species and/or ecosystem. Ethnobotanical data were collected (n = 53), and semi-structured interviews were held with hunters and gatherers (n = 13). Local and national maps were acquired, and their data merged.ResultsResults showed that the communities have no tenure security over their most important harvesting sites. These collection sites are State owned and some under (active) logging concession. All of the traded wild animal populations had decreased because of increased local and non-local commercial interest, especially the stingray Potamotrygon boesemani (first described in 2008), which was traded for US$250 per live specimen. The stingray population had become imperilled within months as local and (inter-) national regulations for this species are non-existent.ConclusionsWe stress the urgent need for collaborative management agreements over the harvesting sites between the government of Suriname and the indigenous communities to prevent further non-local developments and harvesting to disturb the local economy. An immediate moratorium on the export of P. boesemani is necessary to prevent the extinction of this endemic stingray.

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Marxism, indigenism, and the anthropology of Native North America: divergence and a possible future

Rose

2016

Dialect Anthropol

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Anthropology, the indigenous and human rights: Which billiard balls matter most?

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Livelihood Security and Nature Conservation in Maluku, Indonesia

Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Livelihood Security and Nature Conservation in Maluku, Indonesia

Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname

Marxism, indigenism, and the anthropology of Native North America: divergence and a possible future

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