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Resilience and Resistance: Why the World Needs Biocultural Diversity Langscape Magazine Is an Extension of the Voice of Terralingua Volume 6, Issue 2, Winter 2017 Resilience and Resistance: Why the World Needs Biocultural Diversity Langscape Magazine is an extension of the voice of Terralingua. It supports our mission by educating the minds and hearts about the importance and value of biocultural diversity. We aim to promote a paradigm shift by illustrating biocultural diversity through scientific and traditional knowledge, within an appealing sensory context of articles, stories, and art. ABOUT THE COVER PHOTOS Front: Dub Kanche checks whether everything is OK with the audio Photo: Thor Morales, 2016 Back: A child gazes at the ocean. Photo: Manuel Maldonado, 2015 Terralingua thanks the Reva and David Logan Foundation and Kalliopeia Foundation Langscape Magazine is a for their generous support. Terralingua Publication Editor: Luisa Maffi Editorial Assistant & Web Support: Coreen Boucher Graphic Design: Imagine That Graphics Printing: Hillside Printing Learn about Terralingua: www.terralingua.org Receive Langscape Magazine by subscribing or by purchasing single copies. Details at www.terralinguaubuntu.org Learn about Langscape Magazine: www.terralinguaubuntu.org/langscape/home.htm Read past articles on Medium: medium.com/langscape-magazine ISSN 2371-3291 (print) ISSN 2371-3305 (digital) © Terralingua 2017 . LANGSCAPE MAGAZINE nature language culture VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, Winter 2017 Resilience and Resistance: Why the World Needs Biocultural Diversity Table of Contents Editorial ............................... 4 Monocultures of the Fields, Heal the Land, Monocultures of the Mind: Heal the People: Ideas The Acculturation of Indigenous Farming Strengthening Relationships at Cornerstone of Resilience: Communities of Odisha, India Hwaaqw’um in the Salish Sea Reflections on the Diversity Kanna K. Siripurapu, Sabnam Afrein, Joe Akerman ................................................68 of Species and Cultures and Prasant Mohanty .................................36 Shle’muxun: Olga Mironenko............................................. 8 Bahadar’s Almanac: Reconnecting with Listening to Our Ancestors: Oral Tradition in Northern Pakistan the Salish Sea Bioregion Makes People Resilient and Prepared for Biocultural Diversity through Daniel Kirkpatrick ........................................74 the Indigenous Lens Natural Disasters 42 Jon Waterhouse ...........................................12 Zubair Torwali ............................................. Rooted in Place: Hta: Web Extras How Karen Farming Saved a Forest Exercises in Belonging, Photo gallery: “Tsurushibina” Ecological Awareness, and Love in Thailand and Its Poetry Changed International Policy photos, complementing Mariia Radhika Borde .............................................16 Ermilova’s article, at https://medium. Viveca Mellegård .........................................47 com/langscape-magazine/photo-gallery- Reflections Story Map: tsurushibina-260e2f3fcd40 Never for Sale: Youth Reconnect to Place and Photo gallery “Story Map” Biocultural Heritage in Colombia Listening (or Not) to the photos, complementing Jennifer Language of the Land Jennifer McRuer ...........................................52 McRuer’s article, at https://medium.com/ Page Lambert .............................................21 Visions from Within: langscape-magazine/photo-gallery-story- The Obvious Mirror: Another Shot for Biocultural map-250dceef6e22 How Biocultural Diversity Is Reflected in Conservation in the Cradle of Humankind the Natural World Thor Morales ................................................57 Nejma Belarbi ..............................................26 Action Dispatches Special: Reconnection and Tsurushibina: Reconciliation in the Salish A Traditional Japanese Craft Helps Sea, Pacific Northwest Maintain and Restore Biocultural Knowledge and People’s Connection Sustain, Benefit, Celebrate: with Nature Embedding Nature in Our Culture Mariia Ermilova ...........................................31 Rob Butler ....................................................64 VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 | 3 EDITORIAL C IR CircleCLE OF S ofTORIE LifeS, Luisa Maffi t was the end of a long day twenty-six years he resumed after a while, “I think I’m going to start a Iago in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico’s circle of stories. I see that we’re losing a lot from not southernmost state. I was part way into my two- telling our stories anymore. I’ll invite Don Antonio year stint as a doctoral researcher among the Tzeltal and other elders to come to my house on Saturdays, Maya. That day my Mayan field collaborator, Petul, when the kids are home from school, and I’ll tell the and I had been recording Tzeltal elder Don Antonio neighbors to join us as well. This should be good!” telling old stories about people, plants, places, and spirits. In spite of his age, the old man had been So it went. And by that stroke of serendipity, in at talking for hours on end, hardly showing any sign least one Mayan household in the Chiapas Highlands of fatigue. Petul and I, instead, were exhausted. the old stories began to be told again. As we sat back, taking a rest, I casually remarked: “Well, Petul, I guess that’s what people here I was reminded of that distant episode a few days usually do at night—sit around and listen to elders ago when an article that argues for the value of telling stories?” Indigenous storytelling for biodiversity conservation crossed my computer screen.* Revitalizing the Petul looked at me, puzzled. “Huh,” he said after practice of storytelling, the authors point out, is a moment of reflection, “actually, that’s the way it crucial for the intergenerational transmission used to be… But now, you see, the kids are going of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK). to school, and when they come back at the end of And ensuring the continuity of TEK is crucial for the day (if the school is close enough that they can biodiversity conservation: TEK embodies millennia come back daily at all), they have homework to of keen observations of and skillful adaptations to do. So that’s what happens at night: they sit at the the natural world that have allowed Indigenous table under the light bulb and do their homework. Peoples and local communities to live sustainably for Plus, some of the people now have TV, so at night countless generations. The retelling of those stories they sit around and watch TV programs instead. We benefits both the tellers and the non-Indigenous don’t spend that much time visiting one another conservation practitioners who do care to listen. and listening to stories anymore. And the kids often think that the old stories are weird, anyway, because But the importance of storytelling definitely of what they learn at school or see on TV…” doesn’t end with the practical goal of making conservation efforts more effective and equitable He paused, pondering. We had been working by linking them to storytelling—valid and valuable together for several months by then. Going around as that purpose is. Oral traditions have been at the with an anthropologist interested in the “old ways” core of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ had made him keenly aware of how things had identities, serving as the principal means to express changed in his community and beyond. He had started asking himself questions about why things * Fernández-Llamazares, A., & Cabeza, M. (2017). Rediscovering had changed the way they had, and whether people the potential of Indigenous storytelling for conservation practice. were better or worse off for that. “You know what?” Conservation Letters. doi:10.1111/conl.12398 4 | LANGSCAPE MAGAZINE WINTER 2017 their diverse worldviews, cultural and spiritual new narratives that will unseat the long-dominant values and beliefs, and precepts about how to live one of profit-driven economic growth, technology- in a spirit of reverence, respect, and reciprocity driven “progress,” market-driven consumerism, and with one another and with the earth. That sense relentless accumulation of material goods—all at of interconnectedness and interdependence has the expense of the flourishing of life in its myriad conferred resilience to Indigenous and all other forms and of our ability to experience the true wealth societies living in close contact with the natural of “livingness” and the comfort of emotional and world, allowing them to persist and resist over time, spiritual well-being. in spite of tremendous assimilation pressures from dominant Western or Westernized forces. That’s what we set out to do with this issue of Langscape Magazine: bring together voices from And it goes even deeper than that. Diversity in all corners of the world that, collectively, weave nature and culture is the hallmark of life on earth, strands of the new narrative we so urgently need. the spontaneous expression of the evolutionary As if by the hand of a master weaver, many different forces that bring life forth. The more diversity there threads unite here into a colorful tapestry, in which is, the more vital and resilient the whole planet is. recurrent patterns emerge: the value of language And the more attuned we are to diversity, the deeper and oral traditions, the importance of traditional the sense of “livingness” we can perceive and live by, knowledge and sense of place, and the need to (re) as Terralingua co-founder Dave Harmon puts it.* The connect to biocultural heritage, other people, and loss of that sense in Western thought has been one the land to heal ourselves, each other, and the earth. of the primary sources of the global environmental
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