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dc.date.accessioned2017-01-03T16:39:42Z
dc.date.available2017-01-03T16:39:42Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-23
dc.identifier.issn2197-411X
dc.identifier.uriurn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2016111451451
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2016111451451
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherDepartment of Organic Food Quality and Food Culture at the University of Kassel, Germany and Federation of German Scientists (VDW)eng
dc.rightsUrheberrechtlich geschützt
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectClimate Changeeng
dc.subjectAdaptationeng
dc.subjectResiliencyeng
dc.subjectPestseng
dc.subjectIndonesiaeng
dc.subjectEmiceng
dc.subjectEticeng
dc.subject.ddc630
dc.titleEnsuring community and agricultural resiliency to climate change: Ceremonial practices as emic adaptive strategieseng
dc.typeAufsatz
dcterms.abstractThis paper is an analysis of emic versus etic approaches to climate change resiliency, taking as a case study the traditional ceremony performed by farmers in eastern Flores, Indonesia to rid their fields of rats. This paper begins by providing a theoretical framework discussion on the dominant etic and emic academic research on monsoons and climate change impacts on agriculture. The rat ceremony performed in villages throughout East Flores is a local custom used to rid agricultural fields of pests—often rats—that come from the surrounding forests to feed on the agricultural crops when the rains become erratic. This paper argues that analyzing the rat ceremony through an emic lens allows for better future resiliency to monsoon shifts due to climate change. It is argued that the rat ceremony demonstrates a way in which community resiliency is strengthened by an adaptive approach that supports an already existing community ceremony that emphasizes two essential tenets: community solidarity and coexistence with nature. Both tenets directly promote community resiliency. An explicit emphasis on emic approaches to climate change challenges could help re-define how resiliency is understood and supported within vulnerable communities such as rural villages.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIn: Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society. Witzenhausen : University of Kassel, Department of Organic Food Quality and Food Culture. - Vol. 4, No. 3 (2016), S. 19 - 30
dcterms.creatorCasson, Sarah Austin


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