Ethnoecology : situated knowledge/located lives /

The re-emerging field of ethnoecology offers a promising way to document and analyze human-environment interactions. Case studies by international experts explore the varied views of scholars on the human dimension of conservation and the different views of local peoples regarding their own environm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nazarea, Virginia D. (Virginia Dimasuay), 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1999.
Temas:
Ethnobiology.
Human ecology.
Traditional farming.
Biotic communities.
Indians > Ethnobiology.
Ethnobiologie.
Écologie humaine.
Agriculture traditionnelle.
Peuples autochtones > Ethnobiologie.
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Biotic communities
Ethnobiology
Human ecology
Indians > Ethnobiology
Traditional farming
Ökologie
Ethnologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Humanökologie
Biologischer Landbau
Etnobiologia.
Indiens > Ethnobotanique.
Indianer.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a view from a point: ethnoecology as situated knowledge / Virginia D. Nazarea
  • Cultural memory and sense of place
  • The value of subsistence for the future of the world / Eugene S. Hunn
  • Practical and religious meanings of the Navajo hogan / Lillie Lane
  • The agronomy of memory and the memory of agronomy: ritual conservation of archaic cultigens in contemporary farming systems / Michael R. Dove
  • Ethnoecology serving the community: a case study from Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico / Richard I. Ford
  • Refocusing ethnoecology's gaze
  • Lenses and latitudes in landscapes and lifescapes / Virginia D. Nazarea
  • Cultural landscapes and biodiversity: the ethnoecology of an upper Río Grande watershed commons / Devon G. Pena
  • Conserving folk crop varieties: different agricultures, different goals / Daniela Soleri and Steven E. Smith
  • Ethnoecology makes a difference
  • Plant constituents and the nutrition and health of indigenous peoples / Timothy Johns
  • Sustainable production and harvest of medicinal and aromatic herbs in the Sierras de Cördoba region, Argentina / Marta Lagrotteria and James M. Affolter
  • Managing the Maya commons: the value of local knowledge / Scott Atran
  • Local knowledge in global context
  • Safeguarding traditional resource rights of indigenous peoples / Darrell A. Posey
  • A practical primer on intellectual property rights in a contemporary ethnoecological context / David J. Stephenson, Jr.
  • Toward compensation: returning benefits from ethnobotanical drug discovery to native peoples / Katy Moran
  • Am I my brother's keeper? / Cristine S. Kabuye
  • Epilogue: Quo vadis? the promise of ethnoecology / Robert E. Rhoades and Jack Harlan.

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