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225 INTRODUCTION A SPECIES APART FROM ECOCIDE TO GENETIC RESCUE TOTEM AND TABOO RECONSIDERED TORTOISE SOUP FOR THE SOUL GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF INDIGENEITY LAST WORDS, FINAL THOUGHTS DYING YOUNG DEMISE OF THE BET HEDGERS DISAPPEARING WILDMEN EPILOGUE has actively restored, and ceded genuine sovereign control over, land base and resources to one indigenous people—sovereign control that can be predicted to last past the next energy crisis? And at the last, while recognizing the vital need for conservations both cultural and biological, we should be reflexively critical of our motives. Nostalgia for the wild—an untrammeled past of valorized differences, natural or cultural—is based on idealist retrojections. Even if we could get it, which past would we really want, and why? NOTES 1. Most of my work as an ethnographer has been with the Hopi, but I have conducted some ethnographic fieldwork also with the Hupa. 2. Other examples are listed on the website of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (“Indigenous Languages on Television and Radio,” http://www .rnld.org/node/147). REFERENCES Appadurai, Arjun 1996 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Beaglehole, Ernest 1936 Hopi Hunting and Hunting Ritual. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 4. New Haven: Yale University Press. Bradfield, Richard M. 1973 A Natural History of Associations: A Study in the Meaning of Community . 2 vols. London: Duckworth. Descola, Philippe 1986 In the Society of Nature. New York: Cambridge University Press. Hinton, Leanne, Matt Vera, and Nancy Steele 2002 How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to Oneon -One Language Learning. Berkeley: Heyday Books. Leach, Edmund 2001[1964] Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse. In The Essential Edmund Leach. Steven Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw, eds. Vol. 1, pp. 322–343. New Haven: Yale University Press. ...

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