Edges, fringes, frontiers : integral ecology, Indigenous knowledge and sustainability in Guyana /

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in Indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Henfrey, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; 23.
Subjects:
Wapisiana Indians > Ethnobiology.
Subsistence economy > Guyana.
Ethnobiology > Guyana.
Human ecology > Guyana.
Wapishana > Ethnobiologie.
Économie de subsistance > Guyana.
Ethnobiologie > Guyana.
Écologie humaine > Guyana.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnobiology
Human ecology
Subsistence economy
Guyana
Amazon Rainforest.
Ecology.
Environmental Anthropology.
Environmentalism.
Ethnoecology.
Sustainability.
Wapishana.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Edges
  • Edges, fringes, frontiers
  • Integral theory and integral ecology
  • Integral ecology and ecological anthropology
  • Steps to an integral ecological anthropology
  • Babylon and the 'crisis of modernity'
  • Finges
  • Overview of Wapishana settlement & subsistence
  • A plural reality
  • Panarchy in the deep South
  • Composite epistemology in Wapishana subsistence
  • An integral ecology of Wapishana subsistence
  • Frontiers
  • Traditional and Babylon ecologies
  • Cultural edges and frontiers.

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