Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America

Social-ecological and biocultural systems connect people to their environment at the intersection of nature and culture. The harvest of local wildlife for human consumption is critically important to the food security of the world's Indigenous peoples and to the conservation of biodiversity, ei...

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Autores principales:	Roxanne Tremblay, Manuelle Landry-Cuerrier, Murray M. Humphries
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2020
Materias:	biodiversity country food cultural diversity food systems indigenous peoples traditional food trophic niche Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/bdf8b3931d2a4763b8edacbad3f085b3
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bdf8b3931d2a4763b8edacbad3f085b32021-12-02T11:55:12ZCulture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America1708-308710.5751/ES-11542-250208https://doaj.org/article/bdf8b3931d2a4763b8edacbad3f085b32020-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss2/art8/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Social-ecological and biocultural systems connect people to their environment at the intersection of nature and culture. The harvest of local wildlife for human consumption is critically important to the food security of the world's Indigenous peoples and to the conservation of biodiversity, either as a driver of biodiversity loss or of biodiversity protection, depending on system properties. By their nature, local food systems are assumed to be both ecologically determined and culturally defined. Here, we analyze standardized local food consumption surveys conducted in 21 Indigenous communities across northern North America. Using measures of dietary similarity from the ecological sciences and a variance partitioning statistical approach, we reveal a profound and prevailing importance of culture in defining the types and amounts of animal species consumed as food, operating within the environmental constraint of local availability. This quantitative, multicommunity analysis reveals the sustainability and cultural agency inherent in local food systems and the importance of cultural-ecological coupling in an era of accelerating social and environmental change.Roxanne TremblayManuelle Landry-CuerrierMurray M. HumphriesResilience Alliancearticlebiodiversitycountry foodcultural diversityfood systemsindigenous peoplestraditional foodtrophic nicheBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 25, Iss 2, p 8 (2020)
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topic	biodiversity country food cultural diversity food systems indigenous peoples traditional food trophic niche Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	biodiversity country food cultural diversity food systems indigenous peoples traditional food trophic niche Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Roxanne Tremblay Manuelle Landry-Cuerrier Murray M. Humphries Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America
description	Social-ecological and biocultural systems connect people to their environment at the intersection of nature and culture. The harvest of local wildlife for human consumption is critically important to the food security of the world's Indigenous peoples and to the conservation of biodiversity, either as a driver of biodiversity loss or of biodiversity protection, depending on system properties. By their nature, local food systems are assumed to be both ecologically determined and culturally defined. Here, we analyze standardized local food consumption surveys conducted in 21 Indigenous communities across northern North America. Using measures of dietary similarity from the ecological sciences and a variance partitioning statistical approach, we reveal a profound and prevailing importance of culture in defining the types and amounts of animal species consumed as food, operating within the environmental constraint of local availability. This quantitative, multicommunity analysis reveals the sustainability and cultural agency inherent in local food systems and the importance of cultural-ecological coupling in an era of accelerating social and environmental change.
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author	Roxanne Tremblay Manuelle Landry-Cuerrier Murray M. Humphries
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title	Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America
title_short	Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America
title_full	Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America
title_fullStr	Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America
title_full_unstemmed	Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America
title_sort	culture and the social-ecology of local food use by indigenous communities in northern north america
publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2020
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Culture and the social-ecology of local food use by Indigenous communities in northern North America

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