Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia : contemporary ethnoecological perspectives /

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alexiades, Miguel N., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 11.
Temas:
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Migrations.
Migration, Internal > Amazon River Region.
Indians of South America > Ethnobotany > Amazon River Region.
Human geography > Amazon River Region.
Ethnoecology > Amazon River Region.
Biodiversity > Amazon River Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Biodiversity
Human geography
Indians of South America > Ethnobotany
Indians of South America > Migrations
Ethnoecology
Migration, Internal
Amazon River Region
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page-Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Editor's preface; Chapter 1-Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contenporary Ethnoecological Perspectives-an Introduction; Part I-Circulations: Mobility, Subsistence and the Environment; Chapter 2-Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming Plants; Chapter 3-The Restless Life of the Nahua: Shaping People and Places in the Peruvian Amazon.
  • Chapter 4-Urban, Rural and In-between: Multi-sited Households Mobility and Resource Management in the Amazon Flood PlainChapter 5-Unpicking 'Community' in Community Conservation: Implications of Changing Settlement Patterns and Individual Mobility for the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve, Peru; Part II-Transformations: Knowledge, Identity, Place-Making and The Domestication of Nature; Chapter 6-Domestication of Peach Palm (Bactris Gasipaes): the Roles of Human Mobility and Migration; Chapter 7-Internediation.

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