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Welcome to the The Ethnographic Institute, an international, not-for-profit (501 (c) 3) applied social and environmental research foundation located in Berkeley, California, USA.
The Institute works directly with local fishing socieites to help groups protect their distinctive social and cultural identities, traditional livelihoods, and spiritual practices; to retain and develop new uses for culturally-based environmental knowledge; and to secure tenure and use rights for coastal homelands, aquatic, and sea territories
The Insitute was established by university researchers in the U.S. Brazil and Australia concerned with the fundamental interdependence between human rights, social justice, and caring for the environment, and the need to affirm and act on these interconnections in international conservation and development work.
EI provides consulting, research, and project management services for a wide range of organizations (community groups, universities, resource management agencies, private foundations, development and donor agencies) whose interests converge on sustainable coastal development, and which require high quality ethnographic information to build effective partnerships and improve dialogue on global resource management issues.
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