Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY VOL 33 NO 1, 2017 “… ecomyopia [we] define as the tendency to not recognize, to ignore, or fail to act on new information that contradicts political arrangements, social norms, or world views…”
Things we’d do well to acknowledge, apologize for, and repair/restitute…
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY VOL 33 NO 1, 2017 “… ecomyopia [we] define as the tendency to not recognize, to ignore, or fail to act on new information that contradicts political arrangements, social norms, or world views…”
Off and on since 1998 I’ve had the privilege to work as an ethnoecologist with Ayoreo communities in the Paraguayan Chaco– a small language group of perhaps 4-5,000 speakers who have experienced a truly harrowing process of ‘coming into’ Euro-Paraguayan society over the last decades. This morning I opened up my email to find a …