A society’s worldview includes how that society sees their environment and its relationship to the environment.
Consider Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) controversy. Refer to the article read (see below) to understand different worldviews at work. Then, answer the questions below.
Q-1: Discuss the different worldviews, myths, beliefs that are at work in this controversy.
Q-2: Do you think that two cultures with different worldviews could ever come to an agreement on how to deal with issues of environmental exploitation?
Q-3: Now imagine that if you are an anthropologist working with the native tribes, how would you help the native communities to be understood by other parties through employing a cultural relativistic perspective and your knowledge on sacred, myth, and worldview.
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/we-are-blood-relatives-no-to-the-dapl
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/15/those-are-our-eiffel-towers-our-pyramids-why-standing-rock-is-about-much-more-than-oil