Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India

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• dc.contributor.author Salpeteur, Matthieu
• dc.contributor.author Patel, Hanoz H. R.
• dc.contributor.author Molina, José Luis
• dc.contributor.author Balbo, Andrea Luca
• dc.contributor.author Rubio-Campillo, Xavier
• dc.contributor.author Reyes-García, Victoria
• dc.contributor.author Madella, Marco
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-13T08:36:38Z
• dc.date.available 2025-01-13T08:36:38Z
• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description.abstract Previous research has shown that social organization may affect the distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within local communities of natural resource users in multiple ways. However, in this line of research the potential role of informal relationships has mostly been overlooked. In this article, we contribute toward filling this research gap by studying how two types of informal relationships, namely migration partnership and friendship, affect the distribution of TEK within a community of seminomadic pastoralists from the Kutch area, Gujarat, India. Using social network analysis, we map three networks, migration, men friendship, and women friendship, and compare with similarity-based quantitative approaches the clusters extracted from these networks in relation to four domains of TEK: knowledge about soils, about ethnoveterinary practices, about sheep breeds, and in ethnobotany. Our results show that (1) migration clusters are associated to significant variations in three TEK domains, while (2) friendship clusters are associated to minor variations. We relate these results to the importance of common practical experiences involved by joint migration. Moreover, kin relations are shown to strongly underlie friendship and migration relations, and as such appear as a potential driver of the dynamics of the local TEK system. We conclude by advocating for a better inclusion of such informal relationships in future research on local TEK dynamics, following recent developments in studies on natural resource governance.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was conducted within the CONSOLIDER SimulPast project (>Simulating the Past to Understand Human Behaviour,> CSD2010-00034), funded by the former Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. We thank all inhabitants of Mindiyala and Kutch who helped us and the Marag nongovernmental organization for contact facilitation.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Salpeteur M, Patel HHR, Molina JL, Balbo AL, Rubio-Campillo X, Reyes-García V, et al. Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India. Ecol Soc. 2016;21(2):20. DOI: 10.5751/ES-08332-210220
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08332-210220
• dc.identifier.issn 1708-3087
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69065
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher The Resilience Alliance
• dc.relation.ispartof Ecology and Society. 2016;21(2):20
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2010-00034
• dc.rights Copyright © is held by the contributing authors or, where required by law, their employers. As of 15 February 2017 articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. You may share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes provided the original author and source are credited, you indicate whether any changes were made, and you include a link to the license.
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• dc.subject.keyword Friendshipen
• dc.subject.keyword Indiaen
• dc.subject.keyword Informal relationshipsen
• dc.subject.keyword Migrationen
• dc.subject.keyword Pastoralistsen
• dc.subject.keyword Rabarien
• dc.subject.keyword Social network analysisen
• dc.subject.keyword Social organizationen
• dc.subject.keyword Traditional ecological knowledgeen
• dc.title Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India
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