Hayman, Eleanor Ruth (2018): Héen Aawashaayi Shaawat / Marrying the water: the Tlingit, the Tagish, and the making of place. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty of Geosciences |
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Abstract
One meaning of the word Tlingit is “people of the tides”. Immediately this identification with tides introduces a palpable experience of the aquatic as well as a keen sense of place. It is a universal truth that the human animal has co-evolved over millennia with water or the lack of it, developing nuanced, sophisticated and intimate water knowledges. However there is little in the anthropological or geographical record that showcases contemporary Indigenous societies upholding customary laws concerning their relationship with water, and more precisely how this dictates their philosophy of place. It is in the Indigenous record, and in this case the Tlingit and Tagish traditional oral narratives, toponyms (place names), and cultural practices, that principles of an alternative ontological water consciousness can be found to inform and potentially reimagine contemporary international debates concerning water ethics, water law, water governance, and water management.
Item Type: | Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich) |
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Keywords: | Tlingit, Tagish, First Nations, Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Water, Decolonialism, Water Legislation, Oral Narratives, Toponyms, Deep Chart, Yukon Territory |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences |
Faculties: | Faculty of Geosciences |
Language: | English |
Date of oral examination: | 9. May 2018 |
1. Referee: | Ludwig, Ralf |
MD5 Checksum of the PDF-file: | f5bd3028a9fe5e0d7dd20f0e3443953d |
Signature of the printed copy: | 0001/UMC 25538 |
ID Code: | 22368 |
Deposited On: | 14. Jun 2018 13:59 |
Last Modified: | 23. Oct 2020 17:17 |