Preserving Territory

Abstract

Ethnographic focus on identifying shared cultural practice often obscures the fact that many times such choices result from individual desire and taste. This chapter illustrates the importance of such personal choices and explores a means for including individuality in an explanation of shared cultural practice, similar in some ways to what the anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod has called “the ethnography of the particular.” Despite variations in performance practices, O'odham listeners uniformly value waila because it connects them to each other and “makes them happy.” The focus on how and why waila musicians play the accordion the way they do show how the music also links O'odham to non-O'odham and to much wider social, musical, and even economic circles. Yet even as waila musicians engage with the non-O'odham world, they simultaneously hold it at bay.

Crossing gender and biogeography to rethink the habitat of a fluvial community in Ecuador

“…From the social and political point of view, a territory is administered and communities establish a form of organisation which rules community life. It is where the territory joins another concept, accessibility (Gottman, 1973). At present, it is common to observe the notion of territory associate with belonging, managing, inhabiting and moving through a territory.…”

Fluctuations of Annual Precipitation and Water Resources Quality in Ukraine

“…To determine the interdependence between the fluctuation of annual precipitation and water resources quality indexes in Ukraine, standard statistics methods (regression analysis, correlation determination) are used with subsequent interpretation of the results. To examine variation in temporal and spatial aspects of the analyzed indexes variations, a graphic method of results presentation is used [23]. Using the water quality data and annual precipitation amount data, the coefficients of Pearson correlation ( r ) and confidence level for the relationship are calculated.…”