Culture, territories, and confidence in food. An anthropological view on health in the context of environmental pollution and socio-political tension
Résumé
Pollutants in the environment as well as potential risks to human health and health policies are leading to profound changes in the food chain. Whether dietary patterns and medical interventions are accepted, depends on the cultural and territorial anchorage of the populations, their socio-cultural past as well as scientific uncertainty and modalities of objectification of social actors. Controversies, debates, and the media influence governance. Local and minority experiences open up global perspectives. This paper focuses on the necessary contextualization of events at the crossroads of various social sciences. The exposure of fish-eating native people to methylmercury in Canada is used as an example.
This publication is linked with first synthetic work on this environmental and sociocultural question, see A.Bargès 1990. Mercury Chronical Health Hazard in Canada (Québec, Ontario) in Natives populations, an anthropological approach, Thesis, Nancy University / INSERM U115 (Dir. Michel Manciaux)
Mots clés
North America
Appropriation sociale
Health Care
Exposition
Ethnosciences
Local knowledges
Mercury in Canada
The ordering of world
Hydric pollution
Science discourses
Natives
Community
Sociology of health
Health governance
Diet transformation
Mercury exposure
Food fears
Public health
Uncertainty
Identity
Community values
Ethnology
Body perceptions
Anthropology
Trust
water pollution
pollution environnementale
anthropologie
relations population
corps
santé publique
alimentation
résistance
incertitude
Marginalisation
enjeux sociaux de la santé publique
Exclusion
processus identitaires
lien social
Communauté
Tterritoires
bénéfice-risque
autochtonie canadienne
mercure
discours scientifique
confiance
Environnement
SHS - Santé
health
Soins
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