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Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947-
Otros Autores: Plenderleith, Kristina, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6.
Temas:
Cayapo Indians > Ethnobotany.
Cayapo Indians > Ethnobiology.
Cayapo Indians > Agriculture.
Ethnoecology > Brazil > Gorotire.
Kayapó > Ethnobotanique.
Kayapó > Ethnobiologie.
Kayapó > Agriculture.
Ethnoécologie > Brésil > Gorotire.
HISTORY.
Ecology.
Ethnoecology.
Manners and customs.
Gorotire (Brazil) > Social life and customs.
Gorotire (Brazil) > Environmental conditions.
Brazil > Gorotire.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part PART I Kayapó history and culture
  • chapter 1 The science of the Me˜bêngôkre
  • chapter 2 Contact before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern Kayapó of the Amazon
  • chapter 3 Environmental and social implications of pre- and post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians
  • chapter 4 Time, space, and the interface of divergent cultures: the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon face the future
  • chapter 5 The Kayapó origin of night
  • chapter 6 The journey to become a shaman: a narrative of sacred transition of the Kayapó Indians of Brazil
  • part Part II Ethnobiology and the Kayapó Project
  • chapter 7 Report from Gorotire: will Kayapó traditions survive?
  • chapter 8 Indigenous knowledge and development: an ideological bridge to the future
  • chapter 9 Wasps, warriors and fearless men: ethnoentomology of the Kayapó Indians of Central Brazil
  • chapter 10 Hierarchy and utility in a folk biological taxonomic system: patterns in classification of arthropods by the Kayapó Indians of Brazil
  • chapter 11 Additional notes on the classification and knowledge of stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera) by the Kayapó Indians of Gorotire, Pará, Brazil with JO
  • chapter 12 Keeping of stingless bees by the Kayapó Indians of Brazil
  • chapter 13 Ethnopharmacological search for antiviral compounds: treatment of gastrointestinal disorders by Kayapó medical specialists with ELAINE ELISABETSKY
  • chapter 14 Use of contraceptive and related plants by the Kayapó Indians (Brazil) with ELAINE ELISABETSKY
  • part Part III Kayapó land management
  • chapter 15 Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayapó Indians with SUSANNA B. HECHT
  • Amazon soils issues in context
  • chapter 16 Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: some implications of ethnopedology for the Amazon Basin with SUSANNA B. HECHT
  • chapter 17 The keepers of the forest
  • chapter 18 Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
  • chapter 19 The continuum of Kayapó resource management
  • part Part IV Continuing adaptation by the Kayapó
  • chapter 20 From warclubs to words
  • chapter 21 The Kayapó Indian protests against Amazonian dams: successes, alliances, and unending battles.

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