Wapishana Ethnoecology

Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244043744
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wapishana Ethnoecology written by Thomas Henfrey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark monograph in ethnoecology is now available in print format for the first time. Based on long-term fieldwork in Guyana during 1998, 1999 and 2000, it examines relationships between the ecological knowledge of Wapishana hunters and equivalent areas of ecological science. It places this in the ethnographic context of Wapishana settlement, subsistence and symbolism, and the wider context of the political ecology of Guyanas economic liberalisation and the consequent exposure of the indigenous peoples of Guyanas Rupununi region to extractive industries and international conservation interests for the first time. The result is a robust argument, grounded in extensive data and analysis, for alternative trajectories in conservation and international development rooted in the skills, knowledge and interests of indigenous users and custodians of biodiversity.

Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339893
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edges, Fringes, Frontiers written by Thomas Henfrey and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate social-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.

Author : Thomas B. Henfrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnoecology, Resource Use, Conservation and Development in a Wapishana Community in the South Rupununi, Guyana written by Thomas B. Henfrey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miriam A. Bibby
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6158179337
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of the Horse written by Miriam A. Bibby and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by our age-old fascination with equids, Materiality of the Horse brings the latest academic research in equine history to a wider readership. Themes examined within the book by specialist contributors include explorations of material culture relating to horses and what this discloses about the horse-human relationship; fresh observations on significant medieval horse-related texts from Europe and the Islamic world; and revealing insights into the effect of the introduction of horses into indigenous cultures in South America. Thought-provoking and original, Materiality of the Horse is the second volume in Trivent Publishing's innovative "Rewriting Equestrian History" series.

Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edges, Fringes, Frontiers written by Thomas Henfrey and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.

Author : Virginia D. Nazarea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnoecology written by Virginia D. Nazarea and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies by international experts explore the varied views of scholars on the human dimension of conservation and the different views of local peoples regarding their own environments.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803298170
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Histories and Historicities in Amazonia written by Neil L. Whitehead and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking about the world, a historicity. ø In addition to examining the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in such communities as the Guaj¾, Wapishana, Dekuana, and Patamuna, the contributors to this volume consider more broadly how different natural and cultural features can help shape historical consciousness: landscape and territory; rituals such as feasting; genealogy and kinship; and even the practice of archaeology. Also of interest are activist uses of historicity to promote and legitimize the cultural integrity and political agendas of Native communities, especially in contact situations past and present where multiple and often competing forms of history and historicity play important political roles in articulating relations between colonizers and the colonized. ø As this volume makes clear, understanding the powerful cultural role of the past helps scholars better appreciate the inherent dynamic quality of all cultures and recognize a rich resource of agency that can be used both to comprehend and to transform the present

Author : Hanna Garth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472520742
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and Identity in the Caribbean written by Hanna Garth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling volume brings together original essays that explore the relationship between food and identity in everyday life in the Caribbean. The Caribbean history of colonialism and migration has fostered a dynamic and diverse form of modernity, which continues to transform with the impact of globalization and migration out of the Caribbean. One of the founders of the anthropology of food, Richard Wilk provides a preface to this exciting and interdisciplinary collection of essays offering insight into the real issues of food politics which contribute to the culinary cultures of the Caribbean. Based on rich contemporary ethnographies, the volume reveals the ways in which food carries symbolic meanings which are incorporated into the many different facets of identity experienced by people in the Caribbean. Many of the chapters focus on the ways in which consumers align themselves with particular foods as a way of making claims about their identities. Development and political and economic changes in the Caribbean bring new foods to the contemporary dinner table, a phenomenon that may subsequently destabilize the foundations of culinary identities. Food and Identity in the Caribbean reveals the ways in which some of the connections between food and identity persist against the odds whilst in other contexts new relationships between food and identity are forged.

Author : Kristina Plenderleith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415277914
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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