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  title info:
    title: Mountains of blame
    sub title: climate and culpability in the Philippine uplands
  name:
    name part: Smith, Will
    name part: (Anthropologist)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 175 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This thoughtful ethnography provides a detailed account of a forest community on the Philippine island of Palawan grappling with the material and conceptual implications of a changing climate, including residents' sense of self-blame for environmental events. Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia. Following this logic, government authorities excluded the Indigenous people of Palawan from their ancestral lands after World War II and forced them to abandon traditional modes of land use. After adopting ostensibly modern and ecologically sustainable livelihoods, they have experienced drought and uncertain weather patterns, which they have blamed on their own failure to observe traditional social norms that are believed to regulate climate. Such norms, including local customary modes of punishment for violators of incest taboos and other transgressions, have, like swidden agriculture, been outlawed by the Philippine state. In Mountains of Blame, Will Smith uses historical records and over twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork to examine statements about changing weather, processes of dispossession and experiences of climate-driven hunger that are related to Pala'wan narratives of self-blame, a personal response to climate change that is not uncommon among Indigenous peoples worldwide. He suggests that reckoning with these complexities requires questioning key assumptions in the global environmental policy narrative.
  table of contents: Making Uma, imagining Kaingin -- Rooted place -- Insidious vulnerabilities -- El Nĩno and incest -- Placing blame.
  note: Will Smith.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ph---
  subject:
    topic: Palawan (Philippine people)
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Palawan Island (Philippines)
    topic: Climate
  subject:
    topic: Blame
    geographic: Philippines
    geographic: Palawan Island
  subject:
    topic: Palawan (Philippine people)
    topic: Land tenure
  subject:
    topic: Shifting cultivation
    geographic: Philippines
    geographic: Palawan Island
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Effect of environment on
    geographic: Philippines
    geographic: Palawan Island
  classification: DS666.P34 S65 2020
  classification: 959.9/405
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Culture, place, and nature
  identifier: 9780295748153
  identifier: 029574815X
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  identifier: 0295748168
  identifier: 9780295748177
  identifier: 2020020429
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200619
    record change date: 20210728141210.0
    record identifier: in00004435015