2007
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2007.32.1.62
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Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ethnographic Reflections of Environmental Imaginations in Ecuador and the Great Lakes

Abstract: This article explores environmental imaginations in two cultural contexts-in the tales of an indigenous Saraguro, Ecuador, storyteller and in environmental science stories from the Great Lakes. By juxtaposing two examples of cultures grappling with the presence of exotic species in their waters, I raise comparative questions about how we conceptualize human-environment relations in the contemporary world, as well as how moral authority regarding the environment is perceived in different cultural contexts. In b… Show more

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“…Syring's Saraguro guide and storyteller, Benigno Cagno, highlights the importance of the truth of stories in their relations and respectful interactions with water and fish in local ecologies. Syring contrasts these orienting stories to the "environmental imagination" in dominant North American societies which feature more abstracted and scientific managerial ways of dealing with water 'resources' and invasive species (Syring 2007).…”
Section: Trickster Carbon Can Trace Promising Attachments For Transfomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Syring's Saraguro guide and storyteller, Benigno Cagno, highlights the importance of the truth of stories in their relations and respectful interactions with water and fish in local ecologies. Syring contrasts these orienting stories to the "environmental imagination" in dominant North American societies which feature more abstracted and scientific managerial ways of dealing with water 'resources' and invasive species (Syring 2007).…”
Section: Trickster Carbon Can Trace Promising Attachments For Transfomentioning
confidence: 99%