tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210801374268491851.post2125379450203908515..comments2023-06-27T10:29:18.615-04:00Comments on Nature and Culture: "The Ecological Indian"Jim Tantillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520467623399679472noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210801374268491851.post-38951264282376157432010-06-28T15:10:45.958-04:002010-06-28T15:10:45.958-04:00hi,
thanks for reading and for the comment! the c...hi, <br />thanks for reading and for the comment! the course is "Nature and Culture" at Cornell University. Feel free to jump back in at any time. <br /><br />JimJim Tantillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520467623399679472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210801374268491851.post-37808429427810037632010-06-25T23:01:34.281-04:002010-06-25T23:01:34.281-04:00This appears to be a blog for a university course,...This appears to be a blog for a university course, correct? I'm currently doing graduate research on some related subjects (which is why/how I found this website in the first place). I certainly don't claim to be any kind of expert but I'll put in my two cents anyway, if I may: to keep this short, I'll address only your 2nd point. I think it's problematic to say that Aboriginal people, because they had less technology than we do, were unable to predict the future - hence unable to comprehend conservation or sustainability as we can understand it. Many writers would argue that it is our technology that separates and removes us from the understanding of these very things! And how about the notion of knowledge as technology? An accumulated mythopoetic wisdom combined with a scientist-level knowledge of landscape and wildlife, over hundereds if not thousands of years, is surely equal to the task?? Anyway I'll leave it at that. Thanks for your comments! I enjoyed reading them. (What school, and what course, by the way??)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210801374268491851.post-51814123747143647692010-02-28T22:37:14.524-05:002010-02-28T22:37:14.524-05:00It is important to understand that the purpose of ...It is important to understand that the purpose of this book was to challenge the dominant romantic paradigm and prove that under many circumstances, it wasn't always true. Why would Native peoples want to hold true to such a perfect image? It disconnects them from the rest of the world. I did not believe that Krech was attacking Indians, rather, he was making them human. Indians did help in the destruction of the buffalo, and they did actively participate in the fur trade for personal gain. I think that Krech was merely pointing out that no native groups are perfect, like all other culturesmatthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386827720487278879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5210801374268491851.post-37275199867417533412009-02-22T21:13:00.000-05:002009-02-22T21:13:00.000-05:00careful . . . this is precisely the point of the ...careful . . . this is precisely the point of the second writing assignment. Be sure to fully understand--and accurately represent--an author's arguments before going on to evaluate them. Not sure you're completely capturing Krech's arguments here, but still an interesting blog post nonetheless! We will be talking about some of these issues in class on Monday.<BR/>JimJim Tantillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520467623399679472noreply@blogger.com