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For (belatedly) environmentally sensitive non-Euros, you might
want to read
Georges Condominas We have eaten the forest,
translated from the original
French, Nous avons mange l'foret (or some
such). It is a brilliant ethnography
of a
highland Montagnard community in Vietnam. The title
reflects the people's
belated realization that in chopping down most of the
forest in which they lived,
they had destroyed the environment upon which their
culture depended. The book,
written about 40 years ago, is now out of
print, but Powell's (www.powells.com)
has lots of copies.
Fred
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It would be satisfying
to refute the goody-goody image of the
environmentally sensitive
Amerindians . . .
George Scithers of owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx
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Sent:
Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: different
cultures, same ideas
> Not there, yet, but some in other places.
The big issue is whether the
> decline of these big creatures was
affected by human hunting. It's a hot
one,
> no where near
settled.
>
Phil
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