JGE321H1 Study Guide - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Common-Pool Resource, Social Capital
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Connections between people (society) and their environment (nature) example of cormorant fishing (training birds to fish for humans in china and japan) Important connections between people s cultures and their environment. People s beliefs could be seen as efforts by different groups to provide explanations of the world around them, and can also play a normative role (defining/guiding the way people will connect with their environment) Material aspects of culture (food productions, where and how people live, how they modify landscapes) Making a living from the land: agriculture, animal husbandry, forest extraction, hunting and fishing, animal herding. Ellis (1993): peasants are households that derive their livelihoods mainly from agriculture, utilize mainly family labor and are characterized by partial engagement in markets which are often imperfect or incomplete . Idea of transition: not subsistence/traditional caught in a timeless vacuum. Always part of a larger economic system (partial integration) They do bring things into the market.
