Langscape 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: The Gamaran Protected Forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia Minangkabau forest worker Ramly gazes high into the canopy. His skills and traditional knowledge of the Gamaran Forest are possibly unmatched. Photo: J.J. Kohler, 2015 Back: Bahía Solano, Chocó District, Colombia It is important to involve primary school students in researching and surveying the territory. Three children look over the municipal seat of Bahía Solano from one of the highest points found in this region. Photo: Felipe Rodríguez Moreno, 2014 Langscape is a Terralingua thanks the Logan and Kalliopeia Foundations for their generous support. Terralingua Publication Editor: Luisa Maffi Editorial Assistant: Christine Arpita Graphic Design: Imagine That Graphics Learn about Terralingua www.terralingua.org Become a member to receive Langscape or purchase a subscription or single copy. Details at: www.terralinguaubuntu.org Learn about Langscape www.terralinguaubuntu.org/langscape/home.htm . nature . language . culture . Langscape Magazine LANGSCAPE VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, Winter 2015 THE PEOPLE’S ISSUE PART II: AT HOME AND IN THE WORLD Table of Contents Contributors ....................................5 Edges of Transformation: Women Crossing Boundaries between Editorial ..................................................7 Ecological and Social Healing Ideas Jeanine M. Canty ...................................................30 Mirroring the Land: Dispatches Biocultural Diversity Embodied Cracked Earth: Sonja Swift ................................................................11 Indigenous Responses to Nepal’s Earthquakes Country Minds and the Age of Restoration Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin................34 Bob Weeden .............................................................16 When Home Becomes a Protected Area: At Home Between The Udege People and the Bikin River Sciences and Humanities: Valley in the Russian Far East Biocultural Diversity as Source and Object of Interdisciplinary Dialogue Aleksandra Bocharnikova ...................................39 Cristina Muru ........................................................20 Biocultural Diversity Conservation Tourism: Reflections The Gamaran Protected Forest, It’s Hard to Know West Sumatra, Indonesia Mary Louise Pratt ................................................24 Tom Corcoran .......................................................44 VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 | 3 Fostering Well-being Through Action Biocultural Diversity: The Las Nubes Project in a Biological Decolonial Mapmaking: Corridor in Southern Costa Rica Reclaiming Indigenous Places and Knowledge Felipe Montoya-Greenheck .............................48 Jordan Engel ..........................................................62 Isafarn Nudrar: Strengthening the Link Between Green Flowerpots Help Preserve Biocultural “Fights” and Language “Fights”: Diversity in the High Atlas, Morocco A Proposal from Basque Country Irene Teixidor Toneu ...........................................53 Beñat Garaio Mendizabal .................................66 Orpul as a Place of Mind: Louder Than Words Integrating Local Ritual into School Curriculum to Sustain Biocultural Mangroves, Education, Diversity in Tanzania and Recovery of the Territory: Biocultural Diversity Heidi Simper ...........................................................57 in Bahía Solano, Colombia Felipe Rodríguez Moreno and Norma Constanza Castaño Cuéllar ...............71 4 | LANGSCAPE WINTER 2015 Contributors Aleksandra Bocharnikova M. Jennifer Chandler Aleksandra is a research assistant at the St. Jennifer is a photographer and graphic Petersburg Scientific Research Centre for designer who explores themes of identity, Ecological Safety. Born in Vladivostok, in the environment, and change. She has taught Russian Far East, a visit to the indigenous photography in the visual arts department at village of Krasny Yar at age 15 prompted her Prescott College, Arizona, USA, and works in to learn about indigenous peoples. She studied areas of arts administration, grant writing, art anthropology at St. Petersburg State University, installation, nonprofit leadership, and making and has pursued further education in political, the arts accessible to all. social and economic geography. Tom Corcoran Ra c h e l Ba g b y Tom is an environmental and cultural resource Rachel is an award-winning social artist who advisor, project manager, biocultural diversity integrates the power of singing and creative, conservationist, researcher, writer, storyteller and contemplative practices into her workshops National Geographic Society Global Explorer. and training of progressive leaders. She His current work in Indonesia is focused on is the creator of the poetic form Dekaaz reducing deforestation, forest degradation, and Facilitation® and author of the book Divine biodiversity loss in West Sumatra. Daughters: Liberating the Power and Passion of Women’s Voices. Jordan Engel Jordan is a cartographer and researcher Jeanine M. Canty at the Decolonial Atlas project, a virtual Jeanine is a core associate professor of collaboration with indigenous peoples from Environmental Studies at Naropa University around the world, which aims to bring together in Boulder, Colorado, USA. A lover of nature, maps that challenge our relationships with the justice, and contemplative practice, her work environment and the dominant culture. intersects issues of social and ecological justice and the process individuals go through to reach heightened awareness and to translate Beñat Garaio Mendizabal this into positive change. Beñat is studying for a Master’s degree in Language Support and Revitalization at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University Norma Constanza of London, UK. He is particularly interested in the Basque language, endangered languages, language Castaño Cuéllar rights, and language conflicts. He is also a person Norma is a Research Professor, a biologist with with deep ecological concerns. a Master’s degree in Educational and Social Development, a PhD candidate in Education, and Director of the research group “Biology Teaching and Cultural Diversity” at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia. VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 | 5 Felipe Montoya-Greenh eck Heid i Simp er An environmental anthropologist, Felipe is the Heidi holds a Master’s degree in Ethnobotany from James and Joanne Love Chair in Neotropical the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, and a Conservation and Director of the Las Nubes Project Bachelor degree in Botany with a GIS minor from in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA. She University, Toronto, Canada. He has worked with works as the Botanist and Assistant Plant Curator rural indigenous and peasant communities in Costa for Red Butte Garden and Arboretum in conjunction Rica for over twenty years. with University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Cristina Muru Sonja Swift Cristina is a Research Fellow in Linguistics Sonja is a freelance writer. She holds an at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy. She individualized masters from Goddard College, with is particularly interested in the application of a thesis titled Bravery, Body, Land and Knowing. interdisciplinary approaches in the ethnolinguistic Writing is her creative medium for grappling with documentation of languages. Her area of study is the complexity of our times. She calls home between Southern India, with a focus on the Paniya ethnic San Francisco, California and the Black Hills in group, one of India’s “scheduled tribes” in the South Dakota, USA. Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu State. Irene Teixidor Toneu Irene is a PhD student at the University of Reading, Mary Louise Pratt UK. She explored the transmission of knowledge Mary Louise is a scholar in the interdisciplinary about medicinal plant use among Tashelhit- humanities who has taught at Stanford University speaking communities in the Moroccan High and New York University, USA. She works in Latin Atlas, in collaboration with the Global Diversity American studies, language studies, and the study of Foundation. Her studies are part of the European imperialism. Her best-known book is Imperial Eyes: MedPlant project on the evolution and sustainable Travel Writing and Transculturation (Routledge use of medicinal plant diversity. 1992; second edition 2008). Mark Turin Felipe Rodríguez Moreno Mark is an anthropologist, linguist and broadcaster Felipe is a graduate in biology education from the with over twenty years of fieldwork experience National Pedagogical University of Colombia, and in the Himalayas. He is Associate Professor of a co-researcher in the research group “Biology Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Teaching and Cultural Diversity”. He is interested Canada, and serves as Chair of the First Nations in the relationship between nature, culture, and and Endangered Languages Program. In addition, conservation of biocultural diversity in rural he directs the Digital Himalaya and World Oral communities in Colombia. Literature Project. Sara Shneiderman Bob Weeden Sara is a socio-cultural anthropologist working in Bob was a wildlife researcher and a professor