Thomas B. Henfrey

Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.

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Produktdetails

• Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781785339882
• ISBN-10: 1785339885
• Artikelnr.: 51302135

Autorenporträt

Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. His previous publications include Wapishana Ethnoecology, Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation and the edited volume Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: EDGES
Chapter 1. Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Chapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral Ecology
Chapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 5. Babylon and the 'Crisis of Modernity'.
PART II: FRINGES
Chapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence
Chapter 7. A Plural Reality
Chapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep South
Chapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence
Chapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence
PART III: FRONTIERS
Chapter 11. Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies
Chapter 12. Cultural Edges and Frontiers
Conclusion
References
Index