Title |
Learning to hunt Crocodiles: social organization in the process of knowledge generation and the emergence of management practices among Mayan of Mexico
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Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-9-35 |
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Authors |
Fernando Zamudio, Eduardo Bello-Baltazar, Erin IJ Estrada-Lugo |
Abstract |
New kinds of knowledge, usage patterns and management strategies of natural resources emerge in local communities as a way of coping with uncertainty in a changing world. Studying how human groups adapt and create new livelihoods strategies are important research topics for creating policies in natural resources management. Here, we study the adoption and development of lagartos (Crocodylus moreletii) commercial hunting by Mayan people from a communal land in Quintana Roo state. Two questions guided our work: how did the Mayan learn to hunt lagartos? And how, and in what context, did knowledge and management practices emerge? We believe that social structures, knowledge and preexisting skills facilitate the hunting learning process, but lagarto ecological knowledge and organizational practice were developed in a "learning by doing" process. |
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United States | 2 | 100% |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
Mexico | 1 | 1% |
Australia | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 77 | 96% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 15% |
Researcher | 12 | 15% |
Student > Master | 9 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
Other | 21 | 26% |
Unknown | 11 | 14% |
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Environmental Science | 16 | 20% |
Social Sciences | 11 | 14% |
Engineering | 3 | 4% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 3% |
Other | 14 | 18% |
Unknown | 13 | 16% |