Ethnographic refusal in traditional land use mapping: Consultation, impact assessment, and sovereignty in the Athabasca oil sands region

Joly, Tara L.; Longley, Hereward; Wells, Carmen; Gerbrandt, Jenny

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.03.002

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“…The indigenous belief in the sacred sites is associated with religion (16). The sites imply life of supernatural entities which have forces from which taboos and restrictions on people's activities and attitude are derived; the belief leads the people to make social norms to protect and not to disturb the sacred sites (12). The social norm firstly is realized in the form of suggestion, and then leads to a-must-norm (taboo) in order to avoid supernatural anger.…”

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“…The social norm firstly is realized in the form of suggestion, and then leads to a-must-norm (taboo) in order to avoid supernatural anger. The belief in turn leads the people to communicate with the supernatural spirits by performing rituals at the sacred natural sites and obeying taboos (12,17)and other norms in order to avoid the supernatural anger in the form of disease, death, or other misfortunes (12). In order to live in harmony with the supernatural spirits, rituals are performed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The rituals are regularly performed in various forms, i.e. repeated ones like giving thanks, and irregular ones for misfortunes in addition to village festivals held on the lands of sacred sites like hills, groves or other designated sites (12). The belief is a tradition which the indigenous people practice in their life.…”

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“…Indigenous peoples have shown themselves capable of adapting their tradition to manage their land (23). Sacred natural sites with rituals and taboo are parts of tradition which can be used as land management (12).Tradition also can be used to manage the environment in villages (13)(14). In the case of indigenous Mentawaian villages, land management should be based on oral tradition of family story (5).…”

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“…In Mentawai, historical development of territorial configuration of the land can be drawn through oral tradition from family stories (1,(5)(6). Family stories can explain sacred natural sites with rituals and taboo which can be used as traditional land management (12).The tradition also can facilitate environmental management in village (13)(14). A study by Tulius (5) is the only research on Mentawaians indigenous land based on oral tradition.…”

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Family Story on Land-Related Tradition as Base for Land-Use Management and Sustainable Development: The Case of Indigenous Mentawai

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Pratimaratri²,

OslanAmril³

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Indonesian government is actively developing the indigenous villages of Mentawai. The development has brought social conflict over land and ineffective development due to the ignorance of the indigenous tradition on land. The indigenous people have a fanatically practiced tradition recorded in their family stories from which social norms on land are basically derived. Unfortunately, previous studies on the tradition in which there are rituals and taboos as the base for land-use management and development remains ignored and unexamined. The paper examines indigenous land-related tradition in village of Madobag Mentawai as basic social norms for indigenous land-use management and development. Its objectives are to identify indigenous social norms based on the tradition for possible land-use management and sustainable development. The study applies ethnography method based on theoretical approach of indigenous tradition and taboo on land. The result is that the indigenous people have a number of land-related traditions in which it is found rituals, taboos, sacred sites, and food, medical and ritual plants, plants for traditional home and canoe, and culturally important hunting area. The traditions include indigenous land-ownership, land-use for the indigenous, land-use for outsiders, and land-use for development. The traditions are social norms which should be seriously considered as base for land-use management and sustainable development. They can be as effective base for indigenous land-use management and development policy in using the land, solving social conflict over land, keeping social harmony, making policy on development, conserving environment and forest, and preserving indigenous Mentawai culture.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%