Article ID: CBB956138245

“Primitives” and Protected Areas: International Conservation and the “Naturalization” of Indigenous People, ca. 1910–1975 (2015)

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This article explores a long-standing discursive tradition within international nature conservation. In this tradition the argument is made that “primitive” people should be allowed to live in the areas the conservationists deem as “pristine” or “natural.” The article explores the (changing) relative importance of this tradition in the conservation discourse as a whole, and analyzes the shifting composition of its argumentative arsenal from the 1910s to the 1970s. Particular attention goes to the uneasy combination of two types of argument: one in which indigenous people are presented as part of nature, another in which their customary rights are stressed.

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Authors & Contributors
Huaman, Elizabeth Sumida
Baumeister, David
Sriraman, Bharath
Eichler, Lauren
Hultgren, John
Jahzeel Aguilera Lara
Concepts
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Environmentalism
Conservation movement
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Science and race
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
United States
Guyana; British Guiana
Southern states (U.S.)
North America
Appalachian region (North America)
North Carolina (U.S.)
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