Leslie Main (Hrsg.) Johnson

Landscape Ethnoecology

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

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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 classificati… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hunn, Eugene S. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-804-1
EAN: 9781845458041
Produktnummer: 20450032
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 332 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'628 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 9

Über den 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).