Morality, practice and economy in a commercial seal hunting community
In small social groups dependent on specific resources it is difficult to separate actions, moral understandings and the resource itself. It is the response to the affordances of a given environment that shapes the moral framework of social interaction. Therefore, also changes in the market sphere i...
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ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/8ff8ae8d-adaa-4b3c-9cc6-d9a19fc34ac3 2024-02-04T09:56:26+01:00 Morality, practice and economy in a commercial seal hunting community Sellheim, Nikolas Peter 2015 https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/8ff8ae8d-adaa-4b3c-9cc6-d9a19fc34ac3 https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.52.1.71 eng eng https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/8ff8ae8d-adaa-4b3c-9cc6-d9a19fc34ac3 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Sellheim , N P 2015 , ' Morality, practice and economy in a commercial seal hunting community ' , Arctic Anthropology , vol. 52 , no. 1 , pp. 71-90 . https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.52.1.71 /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/3 name=Social anthropology article 2015 ftulaplandcdispu https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.52.1.71 2024-01-11T00:03:10Z In small social groups dependent on specific resources it is difficult to separate actions, moral understandings and the resource itself. It is the response to the affordances of a given environment that shapes the moral framework of social interaction. Therefore, also changes in the market sphere impact the conscious and unconscious actions relating to the affordances of the environment as well as a community’s socio-economic values. It is argued that moral relativism is justified when it is approached through an affordance-lens, meaning that if the role and relevance of a resource for a community is not understood its moral environment cannot be understood either. With ethnographic data stemming from the sealing season 2013 in a fishing and sealing community in northern Newfoundland this interplay of morality, practices and socio-economic values is documented. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Anthropology Newfoundland LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Arctic Anthropology 52 1 71 90 |
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In small social groups dependent on specific resources it is difficult to separate actions, moral understandings and the resource itself. It is the response to the affordances of a given environment that shapes the moral framework of social interaction. Therefore, also changes in the market sphere impact the conscious and unconscious actions relating to the affordances of the environment as well as a community’s socio-economic values. It is argued that moral relativism is justified when it is approached through an affordance-lens, meaning that if the role and relevance of a resource for a community is not understood its moral environment cannot be understood either. With ethnographic data stemming from the sealing season 2013 in a fishing and sealing community in northern Newfoundland this interplay of morality, practices and socio-economic values is documented. |
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