Different harvesting communities each believe their own method is correct.
Evidence
I’ve been with pickers who did that, yanking up a handful that left a little bare spot in the turf and a fuzz of broken roots on the uprooted stems. They too made offerings of tobacco and took only half, and they assured me that their method of picking was the correct one. They were defensive about the charges that their harvesting was depleting sweetgrass. I asked Lena about it and she just shrugged. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 547
Categorization
- QUESTION: Rival ‘correct’ harvest methods set up the empirical test to come — do pulling versus cutting actually differ?
- XREF: connects to: A group’s shared belief in its own power predicts its persistence and achievements. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2825; A single expedition meant different things to each participating community — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 212
Broader Connections
- A single expedition meant different things to each participating community
#exemplifies(0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 212 - A group’s shared belief in its own power predicts its persistence and achievements.
#expands(0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2825