Oil Age Eskimos Joseph J. Jorgensen 401 pages University of California Press May 1990 ASIN: 0520068432
This is one of a few fine books on the impact assessment of huge petro_projects - covering all aspects of 'life'; which incidentally was published a little less than year after the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989. In this book Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society - with a very wide canvas comprising its impact on village organization, economies, kinship relationships. The author seems to have investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright (North Slope, Chukchi Sea), and Unalakleet (Norton Sound). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which seems to have primarily helped and facilitated oil operations, dramatically altered the economic, social, and political organization of these villages and others like them. Although the folks belonging to these villages had experienced little direct economic benefit from the oil economy, they have unwittingly taken on many an environmental risk insidiously tossed at them by the industry. Jorgensen provides a detailed reminder that the Native villagers still depend on the harvest of naturally-occurring resources of the land and sea - birds, eggs, fish, plants, land mammals and sea mammals - and the unfortunate fact that the availability of these minimalist resources has also been affected... This nice book (which of course results in a lotta bile secretion because of the outrageousness of the situation) is a must read for all alt_fuel enthusiasts (though it is very sociological in a few sections), who want to get hold of the big_picture applied in specific to a community of original americans (as opposed to (mostly) avaricious immigrants post colombus). It is available free online from Univ of California press. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt567nb8vs Enjoy! (?) __ramjee. Ramjee Swaminathan | http://www.qsl.net/vu2sro/ | ramjee at vsnl dot net "the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." -- Chaucer Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
