Ethnicity, Not Culture? Obfuscating Social Science in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph G. Jorgensen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 1-124
Description
When law suits arose claiming that there had been damage done to Native culture by the March 1989 oil spill, the Exxon Corporation responded that Aboriginal culture had already been "smashed" and that the small differences between Natives and non-Natives in the spill area were "ethnic" and not cultural in nature.