Comigrants and friends
Previous research has shown that social organization may affect the distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within local communities of natural resource users in multiple ways. However, in this line of research the potential role of informal relationships has mostly been overlooked. I...
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| Palabra clave: | Friendship India Informal relationships Migration Pastoralists Rabari Social network analysis Social organization Traditional ecological knowledge |
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Comigrants and friendsinformal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, IndiaSalpeteur, MatthieuPatel, HanozMolina, José Luis|||0000-0002-2932-2690Balbo, Andrea L.Rubio-Campillo, Xavier|||0000-0003-4428-4335Reyes-García, Victoria|||0000-0002-2914-8055Madella, Marco|||0000-0002-9324-1545FriendshipIndiaInformal relationshipsMigrationPastoralistsRabariSocial network analysisSocial organizationTraditional ecological knowledgePrevious research has shown that social organization may affect the distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within local communities of natural resource users in multiple ways. However, in this line of research the potential role of informal relationships has mostly been overlooked. In this article, we contribute toward filling this research gap by studying how two types of informal relationships, namely migration partnership and friendship, affect the distribution of TEK within a community of seminomadic pastoralists from the Kutch area, Gujarat, India. Using social network analysis, we map three networks, migration, men friendship, and women friendship, and compare with similarity-based quantitative approaches the clusters extracted from these networks in relation to four domains of TEK: knowledge about soils, about ethnoveterinary practices, about sheep breeds, and in ethnobotany. Our results show that (1) migration clusters are associated to significant variations in three TEK domains, while (2) friendship clusters are associated to minor variations. We relate these results to the importance of common practical experiences involved by joint migration. Moreover, kin relations are shown to strongly underlie friendship and migration relations, and as such appear as a potential driver of the dynamics of the local TEK system. We conclude by advocating for a better inclusion of such informal relationships in future research on local TEK dynamics, following recent developments in studies on natural resource governance. 22016-01-0120162016-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/187910https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5751/ES-08332-210220reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 CSD2010-00034open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1879102026-06-06T12:50:31Z |
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Comigrants and friends informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India |
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Salpeteur, Matthieu Patel, Hanoz Molina, José Luis|||0000-0002-2932-2690 Balbo, Andrea L. Rubio-Campillo, Xavier|||0000-0003-4428-4335 Reyes-García, Victoria|||0000-0002-2914-8055 Madella, Marco|||0000-0002-9324-1545 |
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Salpeteur, Matthieu Patel, Hanoz Molina, José Luis|||0000-0002-2932-2690 Balbo, Andrea L. Rubio-Campillo, Xavier|||0000-0003-4428-4335 Reyes-García, Victoria|||0000-0002-2914-8055 Madella, Marco|||0000-0002-9324-1545 |
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Patel, Hanoz Molina, José Luis|||0000-0002-2932-2690 Balbo, Andrea L. Rubio-Campillo, Xavier|||0000-0003-4428-4335 Reyes-García, Victoria|||0000-0002-2914-8055 Madella, Marco|||0000-0002-9324-1545 |
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Friendship India Informal relationships Migration Pastoralists Rabari Social network analysis Social organization Traditional ecological knowledge |
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Previous research has shown that social organization may affect the distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within local communities of natural resource users in multiple ways. However, in this line of research the potential role of informal relationships has mostly been overlooked. In this article, we contribute toward filling this research gap by studying how two types of informal relationships, namely migration partnership and friendship, affect the distribution of TEK within a community of seminomadic pastoralists from the Kutch area, Gujarat, India. Using social network analysis, we map three networks, migration, men friendship, and women friendship, and compare with similarity-based quantitative approaches the clusters extracted from these networks in relation to four domains of TEK: knowledge about soils, about ethnoveterinary practices, about sheep breeds, and in ethnobotany. Our results show that (1) migration clusters are associated to significant variations in three TEK domains, while (2) friendship clusters are associated to minor variations. We relate these results to the importance of common practical experiences involved by joint migration. Moreover, kin relations are shown to strongly underlie friendship and migration relations, and as such appear as a potential driver of the dynamics of the local TEK system. We conclude by advocating for a better inclusion of such informal relationships in future research on local TEK dynamics, following recent developments in studies on natural resource governance. |
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