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Ojibwe. Part 2: Useful Plants
The Desert of the Bedouin
The Bushmasters: ethnographic nature of Western-Suriname
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Ethnographic nature what is it?
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Mission
Ethnographic Nature is an independent research program initiated by Koen Alefs aiming to deepen and propagate the understanding of the perception of nature and subsistence-mode of local communities and indigenous peoples. This is achieved, on assignment as well as autonomously, by means of qualitative field research, the study of ethnographic material and providing custom-made reports
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Global care
An ethnographical understanding of nature enhances conservation efforts and might be pivotal in improving the living conditions or juridical position of local people. To anthropology, research on ethnographic nature means a new application of the vast amount of data that has been gathered over the decennia.
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"Ethnographic nature extremely intensifies the experience of the natural world. It works like a catalogue for a modern art museum: reading it transforms the lifeless colors and arbitrary forms into a vivid world of meaning and structure."
Koen Alefs is an anthropologist and conducted research in Western Suriname, the Sinai desert and Canadian forests. As a specialist on the aboriginal peoples of North America he was associated with the Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples (NCIV) from 2005 to 2008. Koen made two ethnographic documentary films: Take Away Ritual (2002, 45 minutes) and The Bushmasters part 3 (2005, 13 minutes).
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reports
Ethnographic Nature provides custom-made research reports. The ones presented are based on autonomous research projects and written in Dutch. Reports made on assignment might have a different format, volume or vernacular. For more information, please send an
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Ojibwe
Totem animals, shamanistic societies, fur trade, the terrible Windigo, birch bark canoe's, wild rice... The Ojibwe (or Anishinaabe) lived in a North America unknown to most people nowadays. In 2007, I compiled the most significant ethnographic sources. Here available is an overview (in Dutch) of the 339 wild and 6 cultivated plants the Ojibwe peoples have used according to these sources.
Download Ojibwe. Part 2: Useful Plants (pdf)
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