Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson
Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson
Author(s): Panu ItkonenSubject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Environmental interactions
Published by: Tartu Ülikool, Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum
Keywords: environmental sustainability; environmental anthropology; cognitive anthropology; Skolt Sami; Sami peoples;
Summary/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.
Journal: Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
- Issue Year: XVI/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 290-307
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English