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Fentiman Article Analysis

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In Fentiman article, talks about an ethnographer who is studying a village in Oloma. She points out some of the resources that they are lacking that is causing uproar within this village. Oil is a commodity and when it was discovered in this village it changed everything. The community was experiencing an environmental and cultural degradation. The oil industry has impacted they’re livelihood. They were able to fish because the oil had flowed into the rivers. Their land was being destroyed and they were unhappy. Between the two readings from Fentiman and Perlezan and Johnson, it’s an example of how resources have an affected on people’s lives in terms of having that need and want of something to the point where you don’t care how it affects
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