ISSN:
1572-9915
Schlagwort(e):
rainforests
;
environmentalism
;
indigenous knowledge
;
Penan
;
Borneo
Quelle:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Thema:
Biologie
,
Energietechnik
,
Ethnologie
Notizen:
Abstract Since 1987, Penan foragers in Malaysia have been increasingly affected by the activities of logging companies, and have protested this with blockades. Simultaneously, they have become the focus of a broad-based international environmental campaign. This paper examines the rhetoric of that campaign. In particular, I examine the ways in which Western environmentalists have constructed Penan land rights with reference to Penan knowledge of the landscape and of the biotic elements which exist there. Further, I consider how environmentalists have drawn on ethnographic accounts, and how those accounts are transformed in the process of generating images deployed in the campaign.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021983819369
