Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson
Abstract This article contributes to the debate about environmental sustainability, using the Skolt Sami conceptions of nature obligations as guides to this theme. The author’s recent research material is analysed in relation to other relevant publications and sources of environmental anthropology....
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crdegruyter:10.2478/jef-2022-0023 2024-05-19T07:48:00+00:00 Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson Itkonen, Panu 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jef-2022-0023 https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/jef-2022-0023 en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics volume 16, issue 2, page 290-307 ISSN 2228-0987 journal-article 2022 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2022-0023 2024-05-02T06:51:36Z Abstract This article contributes to the debate about environmental sustainability, using the Skolt Sami conceptions of nature obligations as guides to this theme. The author’s recent research material is analysed in relation to other relevant publications and sources of environmental anthropology. Three key factors emerge: reasonableness in the use of natural resources, protection of nature, and respect for nature. Gregory Bateson’s models help to arrange these elements in relation to each other. It is argued here that respect for nature sets a scale for the conceptions of reasonableness and nature protection as the basis of environmental sustainability. The article produces questions and principles that may help put environmental sustainability into practice. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami De Gruyter Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 16 2 290 307 |
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Abstract This article contributes to the debate about environmental sustainability, using the Skolt Sami conceptions of nature obligations as guides to this theme. The author’s recent research material is analysed in relation to other relevant publications and sources of environmental anthropology. Three key factors emerge: reasonableness in the use of natural resources, protection of nature, and respect for nature. Gregory Bateson’s models help to arrange these elements in relation to each other. It is argued here that respect for nature sets a scale for the conceptions of reasonableness and nature protection as the basis of environmental sustainability. The article produces questions and principles that may help put environmental sustainability into practice. |
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