People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape
"It is a tenet of common property theory that local groups of people tend to evolve institutions to allocate common pool resources among community members in ways which are economically and ecologically sustainable. We are interested in the applicability of this type of analysis to subsistence...
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ftdlc:oai:http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu:10535/1065 2023-05-15T13:08:01+02:00 People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape Johnson, Leslie Main Andre, Daniel North America Canada 2000 http://hdl.handle.net/10535/1065 English eng http://hdl.handle.net/10535/1065 Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property May 31-June 4 Bloomington, IN IASC common pool resources institutional analysis indigenous institutions arctic regions resource management General & Multiple Resources Social Organization Conference Paper 2000 ftdlc 2021-03-11T16:16:08Z "It is a tenet of common property theory that local groups of people tend to evolve institutions to allocate common pool resources among community members in ways which are economically and ecologically sustainable. We are interested in the applicability of this type of analysis to subsistence systems of non-agricultural indigenous peoples. This paper is a preliminary examination of informal institutions of the Gwich'in of the Northwest Territories in Canada and how they contribute to ordering access to resources through the seasons by Gwich'in. This analysis is based on conversations by Johnson with Gwich'in and other people who have worked with Gwich'in people, and her fieldwork with Gwich'in from Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic in 1999 and 2000, and the insights and experiences of Andre regarding Gwich'in seasonal use of land and resources. This paper considers the resource use of the people of Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic. It does not deal with the mixed Gwich'in-Inuvialuit-non-Indigenous communities of Aklavik and Inuvik, which are historically more complex. We will consider three principal areas in this analysis: fishing, trapping, and caribou. "It must be emphasized that this discussion uses an analytic framework which differs in important ways from the usual perspective of Gwich'in people. The conceptualization of diverse elements of traditional subsistence as 'resources,' for example, and the discussion of these as things separate from a seasonal flow of life is not an indigenous perspective. Nonetheless, this approach can reveal aspects of Gwich'in life that allow us to compare aspects of the Gwich'in way of living on their land with that of other peoples in diverse areas of the world." Conference Object Aklavik Arctic Fort McPherson IASC Inuvialuit Inuvik Northwest Territories Tsiigehtchic Indiana University: Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) Arctic Northwest Territories Canada Inuvik ENVELOPE(-133.610,-133.610,68.341,68.341) Fort McPherson ENVELOPE(-134.826,-134.826,67.433,67.433) Aklavik ENVELOPE(-135.011,-135.011,68.219,68.219) Tsiigehtchic ENVELOPE(-133.693,-133.693,67.429,67.429) |
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"It is a tenet of common property theory that local groups of people tend to evolve institutions to allocate common pool resources among community members in ways which are economically and ecologically sustainable. We are interested in the applicability of this type of analysis to subsistence systems of non-agricultural indigenous peoples. This paper is a preliminary examination of informal institutions of the Gwich'in of the Northwest Territories in Canada and how they contribute to ordering access to resources through the seasons by Gwich'in. This analysis is based on conversations by Johnson with Gwich'in and other people who have worked with Gwich'in people, and her fieldwork with Gwich'in from Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic in 1999 and 2000, and the insights and experiences of Andre regarding Gwich'in seasonal use of land and resources. This paper considers the resource use of the people of Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic. It does not deal with the mixed Gwich'in-Inuvialuit-non-Indigenous communities of Aklavik and Inuvik, which are historically more complex. We will consider three principal areas in this analysis: fishing, trapping, and caribou. "It must be emphasized that this discussion uses an analytic framework which differs in important ways from the usual perspective of Gwich'in people. The conceptualization of diverse elements of traditional subsistence as 'resources,' for example, and the discussion of these as things separate from a seasonal flow of life is not an indigenous perspective. Nonetheless, this approach can reveal aspects of Gwich'in life that allow us to compare aspects of the Gwich'in way of living on their land with that of other peoples in diverse areas of the world." |
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People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape |
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People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape |
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People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape |
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People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape |
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People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich'in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape |
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people, place and season: reflections on gwich'in ordering of access to resources in an arctic landscape |
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