So this year, we will be working with Vietnamese ethnologists who will provide general information on subsistence use of resources, on the land, on water, on animals, plants, and other resource utilization, on migration and demographic trends in these areas. The ethnologists will also try to understand how location populations view their relationships with the landscape, crops, animals, and plants. This will require a careful examination of ritual life, myths, other narratives, conversations, and observed behavior. The ethnologists will be living with these people for up to six months in order to take this kind of data.
It will be particularly important to determine whether areas of the landscape are sacred or in other ways particularly important to the life of these people, such that limiting access to such sites through the creation of reserves would significantly change people's lives. We believe that this is a very important consideration in the study of biodiversity in reserves and developing management plans for the reserves.
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Narrative Index
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