NATAMST 90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Symbolic Capital, List Of Federally Recognized Tribes, Economic System
3 Oct 2018
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Symbolic and political ecology among contemporary nez perce indians in. Idaho, usa: functions and meanings of hunting, fishing, and gathering. Functions and meanings of hunting, fishing, and gathering activities among nez perce. Humans & environment don"t exist in mutually exclusive manner. Humans attach meanings to environment, which shape ways they relate themselves to environment. Transformation of symbolic meanings attached to environment. Symbolism: essential part of human political activities. Nez perce: land, history & politics are intricately connected. Human actors are constantly competing against each other to define meanings of symbols. Political ecology: provides general analytical framework to examine symbolized human-environmental relations with attention to power relations. Traditional subsistence activities are either means of obtaining necessary calorie. Habitus: structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures. Motivate & facilitate production & reproduction of social reality for individual. Exist beyond individual willful control and hidden within unconsciousness. Exists in dialectic relationships between human will & consciousness & structural constraints.
