Item – Thèses Canada

Numéro d'OCLC
964092555
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Auteur
Donaldson, Emily,
Titre
Living with sacred lands : negotiating sustainable heritage management and livelihoods in the Marquesas islands
Diplôme
Ph. D. -- McGill University, 2016
Éditeur
[Montreal] : McGill University Libraries, [2016]
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Thesis supervisor: Colin H Scott (Supervisor).
Includes bibliographical references.
Résumé
"This thesis investigates how perceptions of the past influence one indigenous group's interactions with, and uses of, the land. It looks at the confluence of what we generally know as "environment" with history and how this nexus guides both cultural and environmental sustainability in the Marquesas Islands. Despite terrible historic losses of Marquesan life and knowledge due to colonialism, warfare, depopulation and disease, certain local understandings and expertise have survived through personal transmission across generations. Over time these emplaced practices on the land have allowed islanders to resist and respond to the extension of territorial power through colonial administration, religion and the market. Islanders' ambivalent, spiritual and embodied connections to the ancestral landscapes where they work each day are one example of this power dynamic and its effects. Sacred meanings in the land play a crucial role in how Marquesans view their past and their heritage, yet they remain unrecognized by such established institutions as the government, the Catholic Church, local cultural organizations and ongoing initiatives for heritage and sustainable development. By failing to acknowledge the spiritual importance and power of ancestral places, processes of indigenous heritage recognition ironically become a vehicle for the perpetuation of colonial patterns of authority that threaten both the Marquesan world-view and local historic resources. The resulting tensions illustrate enduring creativity in the way that islanders view and act upon their heritage. They also suggest alternative strategies for approaching the preservation of historic resources in indigenous and post-colonial communities around the globe."--
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Sujet
Anthropology