Gebundenes Buch

Landscape Ethnoecology

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

Herausgeber: Johnson, Leslie Main; Hunn, Eugene S.

Beschreibung

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored placeA" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of kinds of place,A" or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand...

Autor

Eugene S. Hunn is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books include Tzeltal Folk Zoology: The Classification of Discontinuities in Nature (Academic Press, 1977), Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gatherers, co-edited with N. M. Williams (Westview, 1981), Nch'i-Wána, 'The Big River': Mid-Columbia Indians and their Land (University of Washington Press, 1990), and A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë (University of Arizona Press, 2008).

Produktdetails

• Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781845456139
• ISBN-10: 1845456130
• Artikelnr.: 30192536