Abstract
An epistemological and theoretical framework is developed for use in sociocultural impact assessment (SIA). This framework is based on the necessity of understanding the symbols and meanings by which a group of people transforms the nonhuman environment symbolically into meaningful sociocultural phenomena. The framework is applied to an SIA of the effects on the practice of Indian medicine among a Native American people that would result from low-altitude military aircraft noise. The impacts to Indian patients are very different from the impacts to non-Indian patients of a practicing medicine woman because of the symbols and meanings of medicine to Indian patients. The benefits to be gained from this framework in the practice of SIA are discussed.
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