We must be wary of “romanticizing poverty” and accepting poor living conditions as “culture”, warns Eduardo Brondízio, a world-renowned anthropologist who will seek to push people out of their comfort zones when he speaks at the Colloquium on Forests and Climate in New York on September 24. “Increasingly we see an idealization of indigenous ways as ‘ecologically noble’, and economically frozen in time,” he said. “We cannot ignore the desires and expectations that people have – they too want to improve their lives, and we risk creating conflict based on misrepresentation and mismatches of expectations. … We should recognize the value of local communities and indigenous groups for what they are – not for how they can serve our romanticized stereotypes.”
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:09:49 +0000
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