Landscape Ethnoecology (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space
Redaktion: Johnson, Leslie Main; Hunn, Eugene S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors go beyond the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) literature and offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification. Focusing on the ways traditional people perceive and manage land and biotic resources within diverse regional and cultural settings, the contributors address theoretical issues and present case studies from North America, Mexico, Amazonia, tropical Asia, Africa and Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845458041
• Artikelnr.: 40173251

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1. Introduction
Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn
PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 2. Towards a Theory of Landscape Ethnoecological Classification
Eugene S. Hunn and Brien A. Meilleur
Chapter 3. Ethnophysiography of Arid Lands: Categories for Landscape
Features
David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk and David Stea
PART II: LANDSCAPE CLASSIFICATION - OF ECOTYPES, BIOTYPES, LANDSCAPE
ELEMENTS AND FOREST TYPES
Chapter 4. Landscape perception, classification and use among Sahelian
Fulani in Burkina Faso (West-Africa)
Julia Krohmer
Chapter 5. Baniwa Habitat Classification in the White-Sand Campinarana
Forests of the Northwest Amazon
Marcia Barbosa Abraão, João Cláudio Baniwa, Bruce W. Nelson, Geraldo
Andrello, Douglas W. Yu and Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
Chapter 6. Why aren't the Nuaulu like the Matsigenka? Knowledge and
categorization of forest diversity on Seram, eastern Indonesia
Roy Ellen
Chapter 7. 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
Chapter 8. The structure and role of folk ecological knowledge in Les
Allues, Savoie (France)
Brien Meilleur
Chapter 9. Life on the Ice: Understanding the Codes of a Changing
Environment
Claudio Aporta
PART III: LINKAGES AND MEANINGS - OF LANDSCAPES AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Chapter 10. Visions of the Land - Kaska Ethnoecology, "Kinds of Place" and
"Cultural Landscape"
Leslie Main Johnson
Chapter 11. Journeying and Remembering: Anishinaabe Landscape Ethnoecology
from Northwestern Ontario
Iain Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes
Chapter 12. What's In a Word? Southern Paiute Place Names as Keys to
Environmental Perception
Catherine S. Fowler
Chapter 13. Managing Maya Landscapes: Quintana Roo, Mexico
E. N. Anderson
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 14. Landscape Ethnoecology - Reflections
Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn
Notes on Contributors
Index