| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : illustrations, map |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Landscape Transformations. 1. Villages of Vines and Trees ; 2. An Estimate of Anthropogenesis ; 3. Comparison of High and Fallow Forests -- Part II: Contact and Attrition. 4. People of the Fallow Forest ; 5. Vanishing Plant Names ; 6. Conquest and Migration -- Illustrations -- Part III: Indigenous Savoir Faire. 7. From Their Point of View ; 8. Retention of Traditional Knowledge ; 9. Confection, Inflection -- Part IV: Dimensions of Diversity. 10. Discernment of Environmental Variation ; 11. Rethinking the Landscape -- Appendix I. Guajá Generic Plant Names -- Appendix II. Trees of the Anthropogenic Forest. |
| Summary |
Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balée's research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon, he argues that indigenous people, |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urubu Kaapor Indians -- Ethnobotany.
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Urubu Kaapor Indians. |
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Ethnobotany. |
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Urubu Kaapor Indians -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Urubu Kaapor Indians -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region.
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Ethnoecology. |
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Amazon River Region. |
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Traditional ecological knowledge -- Amazon River Region.
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Traditional ecological knowledge. |
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Cultural landscapes -- Amazon River Region.
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Cultural landscapes. |
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Rain forest ecology -- Amazon River Region.
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Rain forest ecology. |
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Amazon River Region -- Social conditions.
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Amazon River Region -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Balée, William. Cultural Forests of the Amazon : A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2013 9780817317867 (DLC) 2012042396 (OCoLC)818293386 |
| ISBN |
9780817386559 (electronic book) |
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0817386556 (electronic book) |
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9780817317867 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817317864 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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