Landscape ethnoecology : concepts of biotic and physical space /

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, Indigenous and local understandings of landscape...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Leslie M. (Editor ), Hunn, Eugene S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 9.
Temas:
Landscape assessment.
Landscape ecology.
Human geography.
Ethnoecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Geographical perception.
Paysages > Évaluation.
Écologie du paysage.
Ethnoécologie.
Savoirs écologiques traditionnels.
Perception géographique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Geographical perception
Human geography
Ethnoecology
Landscape assessment
Landscape ecology
Traditional ecological knowledge
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward a theory of landscape ethnoecological classification / Eugene S. Hunn and Brien A. Meilleur
  • Enthnophysiography of arid lands: categories for landscape features / David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, and David Stea
  • Landscape perception, classification, and use among Sahelian Fulani in Burkina Faso / Julia Krohmer
  • Baniwa vegetation classification in the white-sand campinarana habitat of the northwest Amazon, Brazil / Marcia Barbosa Abraão [and others]
  • Why aren't the Nuaulu like Matsigenka? Knowledge and categorization of forest diversity on Seram, eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen
  • The cultural significance of the habitat mañaco taco to the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon / Michael P. Gilmore, Sebastián Ríos Ochoa, and Samuel Ríos Flores
  • The structure and role of folk ecological knowledge in Les Allues, Savoie (France) / Brien Meilleur
  • Life on the ice: understanding the codes of a changing environment / Claudio Aporta
  • Visions of the land: Kaska ethnoecology, "kinds of place," and "cultural landscape" / Leslie Main Johnson
  • Journeying and remembering: Anishinaabe landscape ethnoecology from northwestern Ontario / Iain Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes
  • What's in a name? Southern Paiute place names as keys to landscape perception / Catherine S. Fowler
  • Managing Maya landscapes: Quintana Roo, Mexico / E.N. Anderson
  • Landscape ethnoecology: reflections / Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn.

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