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Coping Strategies in an Ethnic Minority Group: The Aeta of Mount Pinatubo
Author(s) -
Seitz Stefan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7717.00076
Subject(s) - ethnic group , indigenous , coping (psychology) , natural disaster , poison control , mount , suicide prevention , social psychology , psychology , geography , socioeconomics , sociology , medicine , engineering , medical emergency , anthropology , clinical psychology , ecology , mechanical engineering , biology , meteorology
The particular problems arising in the aftermath of natural disasters in indigenous societies in the Third World, especially in ethnic or cultural minorities, have until now received only little attention in social scientific research. The potential of such indigenous groups to use their traditional knowledge and behaviour patterns in coping with natural disasters has been badly neglected. The example of the Aeta in Zambales, Philippines, a marginal group who were hit directly by the eruption of Mt Pinatubo in 1991, shows how traditional economic and social behaviour can in some measure determine their various survival strategies.