森林放牧と牛の屠殺をめぐる文化の政治-現代ブータンの国立公園における環境政策と牧畜民-

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  • Cultural Politics of Forest Grazing and Cattle Slaughtering : Environment Policy and Pastoralists in a National Park in Bhutan
  • シンリン ホウボク ト ウシ ノ トサツ オ メグル ブンカ ノ セイジ ゲンダイ ブータン ノ コクリツ コウエン ニ オケル カンキョウ セイサク ト ボクチクミン

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This paper describes cultural politics on the concept of “Environmental Conservation” in contemporary Bhutan through a case study of a pastoral village within a national park, where the practice of forest-based cattle grazing and migratory livestock farming has been restrained for the last few years by the government in the name of environmental conservation. On the one hand, the government has put restrictions on the people's forest resource use, and on the other, it has encouraged villagers to decrease the number of their cattle and transform their lifestyle from one centered on migratory livestock farming to a sedentary one. Since there is no efficient way to reduce the number of cattle except through slaughter, the government policy implies that people will, albeit indirectly, be forced to send their cattle to the slaughterhouse. Currently the people of this pastoral village face the difficult situation of having to choose whether to be a better Buddhist by not killing cattle or a better environmentalist by sending their cattle to slaughter. In contemporary Bhutan, although the government has insisted that environmental ethics are intrinsically included in the thought of Mahayana Buddhism and cannot be separated, actual conservation policies do not allow them to be ideal Buddhists. This case study shows us the possibility of multiple interpretations of “environmental conservation”, and highlights the people's attempts to reevaluate and reconstitute their own self-portraits based on the government's ideal of “being a good Bhutanese citizen”, in which the country's Buddhist tradition and environmental concerns coexist.

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