Miller, M.
L., Kaneko, J., Bartram, P., Marks, J., & Brewer, D. D. (2004).
Cultural consensus analysis and
environmental anthropology: Yellowfin tuna fishery management in
Hawaii. Cross-Cultural
Research, 38, 289-314.
Natural resource policies in the United
States are implemented with a social technology of objectivity.
Accordingly, resource managers rely on scientific and quantitative
analyses to satisfy constituencies distrustful of regulatory
authorities. Cultural consensus analysis is a powerful method for
determining whether knowledge domains are structured in ways that
support a conclusion that cultural members recognize certain cultural
truths not known before-hand to the investigator. The authors compare
hand-line fishermen and fishery scientists in Hawaii regarding their
knowledge about stock structure, fish movements, resource abundance,
stock condition, and fishery interactions. Yellow fin tuna fishery
results show that fishermen and scientists exhibit an overall consensus
about ecological knowledge, although they disagree in some areas. Some
practical advantages of consensus analysis are discussed along with the
possibilities for growth in the fishery social science sector,
cross-cultural applied research, and the practice of environmental
anthropology.
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