Endangered species : health, illness, and death among Madagascar's people of the forest

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Summary: Endangered species is an ethnographic study of a group of people living in a forested region in Madagascar. This group of people has been targeted for recent conservation and development initiatives intended to protect species biodiversity. Based on anthropological research in a village located on the periphery of a U.S.-funded national park, and further supported with archival and library research, this study shows how concepts of culture have been misused by policy makers to promote park objectives, while misunderstandings arising from the use of ethnic stereotypes have contributed to serious health and economic problems for people living in the forest region. Many policy-makers fail to appreciate the actual ways that people live and farm in the forest and how they negotiate their quest for health. Janice Harper suggests that lineage and social class rather than ethnic heritage are more relevant to the ways that people access and interact with the land, forest, and strategic resources

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Series statement: Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series

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