Dissertation Improvement Grant: Home Watching TV: Traditional Knowledge and Social Change in the Kluane Region of Canada's Yukon Territory

本论文项目是对加拿大育空地区克鲁恩地区环境思想和实践的村级研究。在过去的十年中，研究试图理解或记录“传统生态知识”，以用于资源管理工作、环境影响评估和土地主张谈判。然而，该项目认为，知识不只是人类智力的抽象产物，而是嵌入到社会关系和实践的复杂网络中的更广泛文化过程的一个方面。通过从这个角度看待克鲁恩地区的土地利用，该项目超越了传统的知识研究，思考了环境知识和实践是如何变化的，以及这些变化对当地人民和资源意味着什么。本研究采用参与观察法、访谈法和档案馆/图书馆研究法，将传统生态知识作为一个过程进行考察。

This dissertation project is a village level study of environmental thought and practice in the Kluane region of Canada's Yukon Territory. In the past decade, studies have tried to understand or document "traditional ecological knowledge" for use in resource management efforts, environmental impact assessments and land claims negotiations. However, this project argues that that knowledge is not simply an abstract product of the human intellect, but is one aspect of broader cultural processes that are embedded in complex networks of social relations and practices. By approaching land use in the Kluane area from this perspective, the project goes beyond traditional knowledge studies and considers how environmental knowledge and practice are changing and what these changes mean for local people and resources. The study uses participant observation, interviews, and archival/library research to examine traditional ecological knowledge as a process.