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Will Smith

Mountains of Blame

Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands

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Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their ancestral lands and to force them to abandon traditional modes of land use. After adopting ostensibly modern and ecologically sustainable livelihoods, the Pala'wan people have experienced drought and uncertain weather patterns, which they have blamed on their own failure to observe traditional social norms that are believed to regulate climate—norms that, like swidden agriculture, have been outlawed by the state.In this ethnog… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-295-74817-7
  • EAN: 9780295748177
  • Produktnummer: 35608195
  • Verlag: University of Washington Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 31'065 KB
  • Abbildungen: 9 b&w illus., 1 map, 2 tables

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