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dc.contributor.author | Feit, Harvey A. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-01T05:28:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-01T05:28:11Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1983 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Feit, Harvey A. ca. 1983. “Breakdown and Survival of a Conservation System: Waswanipi Game Management in Historical Perspective and Stories.” Manuscript. 16 Pp. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24587 | - |
dc.description | This paper draws from data and research presented in my PhD Dissertation, where a somewhat different focus is developed (Feit 1978: 1087-1130). Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the: 1981 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Los Angeles); 1982 Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting (University of British Columbia); 1982 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C.); and the 1983 International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Université Laval). Summaries of this analysis were later presented in: Feit 1986, “James Bay Cree Indian Management and Moral Considerations of Fur-bearers,” in Native People and Renewable Resource Management, 1986 Symposium of the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists (ASPB), Edmonton: ASPB. Pp. 49-65; and, 1988, “Self Management and State Management: Forms of Knowing and Managing Northern Wildlife,” in Traditional Knowledge and Renewable Resource Management in Northern Regions, Milton M.R. Freeman and Ludwig N. Carbyn, eds., Edmonton: Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, and International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Pp. 72-91. In later research I expanded the analyses of the historical context, processes and consequences of the conservation developments of this period, see: Feit 2005, “Re-Cognizing Co-Management as Co-Governance: Histories and Visions of Conservation at James Bay,” Anthropologica 47 (2): 267-288. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines how local game management conservation systems have to be understood historically, as local and regional cultural practices, and as linked with national and international economic and political conditions and interventions. In the 1920s and 1930s in the Waswanipi region of northern Québec, Cree hunters abandoned certain practices related to their own conservation models because of external interventions. It was not the existing extent of the depletion of game by competing outside hunters, but the perception of the foreseeable consequences of their intrusion which was sufficient to provoke a breakdown of some Waswanipi conservation practices. But conservation breakdown was not an unplanned total abandonment of game management. When the long-term management objectives were perceived as unachievable by means of Waswanipi conservation hunting for particular game species the practice of hunting limitations was abandoned in practice by steps over the course of a decade. The models for action remained, and still guided decisions and practices for those species whose conservation hunting was not threatened because they were not targeted by the outside hunters. Waswanipi also sought new and innovative means of re-establishing conditions in which conservation in conformity with their ideas and practices would again make sense and be achievable for depleted game populations, including their introduction of new community-wide constraints, and by seeking cooperative action from governments. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Canada Council Doctoral Scholarship, Canadian Museum of History research contracts, McGill University Northern Research Committee research grants and Steinberg Summer Research Fellowships. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Sustaining Conservation Systems | en_US |
dc.subject | Histories of Conservation | en_US |
dc.subject | Conservation Breakdowns | en_US |
dc.subject | Local Resource Management | en_US |
dc.subject | Ethno-ecology | en_US |
dc.subject | Conservation Culture and Practice | en_US |
dc.subject | Waswanipi Cree | en_US |
dc.subject | James Bay Cree | en_US |
dc.title | “Breakdown and Survival of a Conservation System: Waswanipi Game Management in Historical Perspective and Stories.” | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Anthropology | en_US |
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