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Application
Lifeway, Livelihood, and Loss
A thread throughout this course has been to link issues among indigenous communities and your community � which may feel similar to an indigenous community by virtue of its longevity or identification with a lifeway. One way to build on this correlation is to examine how resource ownership, use, and sustainability can affect an indigenous or traditional community. Understanding how an economic livelihood informs an occupational identity helps connect how sustainability and resource allocation informs an indigenous identity. In this application, you will encounter a scenario in which the resources that you’ve come to depend upon are no longer available, and then you will evaluate the impact that this has.
Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Contact the Instructor area. That way, everyone in the class will see, and benefit from, the Instructor’s response.
To prepare for this Application:
�Review the Learning Resources for this week, paying particular attention to the ways in which resource allocation, development, and changes to lifeway affect indigenous peoples.
�Identify a central resource upon which your own community, or a community you are familiar with, is dependent.
�For the purposes of this assignment, you can equate job identity with indigenous identity as a way to step into an indigenous viewpoint.
�Hypothesize a scenario (or describe a real scenario) in which this community loses the ability to utilize a resource for economic purposes. For example, did your hometown once support a productive coal industry that has now disappeared? Have shipping and dock work in your port town been replaced or relocated?
The assignment:
�Compose a 1- to 2-page paper in which you do the following:
?Summarize how the loss of a resource that contributes to the economic livelihood of the community that you identified affects the well being of that community.
?For example, how would this loss affect your status and a younger generation’s status?
?Could you move? How would others view your community?
?With this identification of similar circumstances in mind, evaluate the scope and impact of environmental change and economic development on indigenous peoples.
I am of American Indian descent (Cherokee). And I have given you the directions and now here is the resources.
Learning Resources
Reading
�Course Text: Thinking Like an Anthropologist
?Chapter 5, “What Was This Practice or Idea Like in the Past?” (pp. 165�189)
?Chapter 11, “What Do the People Say?” (pp. 380�401)
These chapters cover the past in relation to the present, indigenization, and the voices of different cultures now.
�Articles
?Aikau, H., & Spencer, J. (2007). Introduction: Local reaction to global integration: The political economy of development in indigenous communities. Alternatives: Global, local, political, 32(1), 1�8 .
This article is from the Walden University Library database. Use the Academic Search Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 24615416.
?Valdivia, G. (2007). The Amazonian trial of the century: Indigenous identities, transnational networks, and petroleum in Ecuador. Alternatives: Global, local, political, 32(1), 41�72.
This article is from the Walden University Library database. Use the Academic Search Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 24615418.
?Partlow, J. (2008, October 14). Doubt, anger over Brazil dams: As work begins along Amazon tributary, many question human, environmental costs. The Washington Post, A11.
This article is from the Walden University Library database. Use the ProQuest Central database, and search using the article’s Digital ID: 1573948541.
Real cases of indigenous response to globalization are featured in the above articles.
Optional Resources
�Web Sitees
?International Forum on Globalization
http://www.ifg.org/programs/indig.htm
?Solar Cookers International SCI
http://solarcookers.org/
?Tebtebba
http://www.tebtebba.org/
?Survival International
http://www.survivalinternational.org/
?The Indigenous Peoples of the World Foundation
http://www.peoplesoftheworld.org/about.jsp
?United Nations CyberSchoolbus
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/indigenous/advocate.asp
?Kaninde (Brazil)
http://www.kaninde.org.br/
The web sites above, useful in the Discussion this week, provide examples of collaboration with indigenous peoples. (Note that Kaninde is in Portuguese, but the page can be translated using online translation tools.)
�Books
?Dyson, L., Hendriks, M., & Grant, S. (2007). Information technology and indigenous people. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
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