Un model antropologic al rezilienţei comunitare în comunităţi dependente de ecosistemele forestiere
The concept of social resilience within communities dependent on forest ecosystems

Summary/Abstract: The concept of social resilience seems to place INSTITUTIONAL STABILITY in its centre (here “institution” bearing a sociological meaning) when confronting with pressures and economical, judicial, political, environmental hazard. In this context, the socio-ecological resilience translates a relation of double implication: the institutional dependence towards the ecosystem but also the ecosystem's dependence towards institutions. But is it possible to mistake the institutional resilience with the community resilience (or even with an ethnical one)? In my opinion, the first one represents an important dimension of the second one, without being its only one. Of equal importance is also the dimension of the SYMBOLICAL RESILIENCE, actually engaging the CULTURAL RESILIENCE as well. Social and cultural anthropological studies carried out in the communities from Guatemala, Guinea, India, Japan and amongst Indians living along the North-Western coast of North America etc., totally or partially dependent on the forest ecosystem, have managed to bring into the light the value of the set of symbols, believes, and representations related to the forest and of associated rituals for both conservation and stability of the forest ecosystem and of the communities and communal institutions. Modifications of the cognitive level resulted in modifications of the ecosystem’s balance. This can be observed by drawing the forest’s resources into the market economy circuit, a phenomenon that presupposes a particular symbolic projection. A FORCED drawing into this circuit, with all the implications for the ecosystem’s resilience, has in its turn consequences for the cultural resilience, namely presenting a need to adapt the initial symbolic universe to the new ecological realities.

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