| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6
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Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part PART I Kayapó history and culture -- chapter 1 The science of the Me˜bêngôkre -- chapter 2 Contact before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern Kayapó of the Amazon -- chapter 3 Environmental and social implications of pre- and post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians -- chapter 4 Time, space, and the interface of divergent cultures: the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon face the future -- chapter 5 The Kayapó origin of night -- chapter 6 The journey to become a shaman: a narrative of sacred transition of the Kayapó Indians of Brazil -- part Part II Ethnobiology and the Kayapó Project -- chapter 7 Report from Gorotire: will Kayapó traditions survive? -- chapter 8 Indigenous knowledge and development: an ideological bridge to the future -- chapter 9 Wasps, warriors and fearless men: ethnoentomology of the Kayapó Indians of Central Brazil -- chapter 10 Hierarchy and utility in a folk biological taxonomic system: patterns in classification of arthropods by the Kayapó Indians of Brazil -- chapter 11 Additional notes on the classification and knowledge of stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera) by the Kayapó Indians of Gorotire, Pará, Brazil with JO -- chapter 12 Keeping of stingless bees by the Kayapó Indians of Brazil -- chapter 13 Ethnopharmacological search for antiviral compounds: treatment of gastrointestinal disorders by Kayapó medical specialists with ELAINE ELISABETSKY -- chapter 14 Use of contraceptive and related plants by the Kayapó Indians (Brazil) with ELAINE ELISABETSKY -- part Part III Kayapó land management -- chapter 15 Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayapó Indians with SUSANNA B. HECHT -- Amazon soils issues in context -- chapter 16 Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: some implications of ethnopedology for the Amazon Basin with SUSANNA B. HECHT -- chapter 17 The keepers of the forest -- chapter 18 Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon -- chapter 19 The continuum of Kayapó resource management -- part Part IV Continuing adaptation by the Kayapó -- chapter 20 From warclubs to words -- chapter 21 The Kayapó Indian protests against Amazonian dams: successes, alliances, and unending battles. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cayapo Indians -- Ethnobotany.
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Cayapo Indians -- Ethnobotany. |
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Cayapo Indians. |
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Cayapo Indians -- Ethnobiology.
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Ethnobiology. |
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Cayapo Indians -- Agriculture.
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Cayapo Indians -- Agriculture. |
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Ethnoecology -- Brazil -- Gorotire.
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Ethnoecology. |
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Brazil -- Gorotire. |
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Gorotire (Brazil) -- Social life and customs.
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Gorotire (Brazil) -- Environmental conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Plenderleith, Kristina, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947- Kayapó ethnoecology and culture. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 (DLC) 2001058583 |
| ISBN |
0203220196 (electronic book) |
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9780203220191 (electronic book) |
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9780415277914 |
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0415277914 |
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9786610098552 |
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6610098557 |
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9781134471423 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1134471424 |
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9781134471379 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1134471378 |
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9781134471416 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1134471416 |
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9780415753784 (paperback) |
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0415753783 |
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0415277914 (Cloth) |
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