Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives (Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Band 11)

ISBN 10: 1845455630 ISBN 13: 9781845455637

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2009

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Examines with the relationship between indigenous migration and human-environment relations Utilizes a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts Explores the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes Examines how migration and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change shape human-environment relations in Amazonia

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Miguel N. Alexiades is Senior Lecturer at University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) and the Cultural Landscapes and Resource Rights Program Manager at People and Plants International (PPI). He is the editor of Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research: A Field Manual (1996, New York Botanical Garden Press) and Forest Products, Livelihoods and Conservation: Case-Studies of NTFP Systems (2004, Center for International Forestry Research).

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Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts, different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes, as well as the incorporation and transformation of environmental knowledge, practices, ideologies and identities.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845455630
• ISBN 13: 9781845455637
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
• Herausgeber: Alexiades Miguel N.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland