ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Malagasy People, Bushmeat, Brian Close
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Bruce hayes quote: what people hope for and what they get is actually different, always makes you look at how things are working out. Whom do they benefit? locals use of land = destrictive, illegal local people understood it as an sacred landscape: people trying to get chalkwood, firewood, cattle that are lost, this is considered illegal. It does have rules that define whats acceptable and illegal practices. Uses term taboos as a cultural way to tell people to stay out of the park. Being a tourist is a leisure practice: don"t sell tourism the same way as sapphire. Ankarana was a wildlife reserve, transferred into a national park in 1991 for the specific purpose of making it available to tourists. As a wildlife, very difficult to get permits, no trails, no access to interior of the park: in 1991, they set up an infrastructure to make it available to tourists.