| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Series |
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 9
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Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Toward a theory of landscape ethnoecological classification / Eugene S. Hunn and Brien A. Meilleur -- Enthnophysiography of arid lands: categories for landscape features / David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, and David Stea -- Landscape perception, classification, and use among Sahelian Fulani in Burkina Faso / Julia Krohmer -- Baniwa vegetation classification in the white-sand campinarana habitat of the northwest Amazon, Brazil / Marcia Barbosa Abraão [and others] -- Why aren't the Nuaulu like Matsigenka? Knowledge and categorization of forest diversity on Seram, eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen -- The cultural significance of the habitat mañaco taco to the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon / Michael P. Gilmore, Sebastián Ríos Ochoa, and Samuel Ríos Flores -- The structure and role of folk ecological knowledge in Les Allues, Savoie (France) / Brien Meilleur -- Life on the ice: understanding the codes of a changing environment / Claudio Aporta -- Visions of the land: Kaska ethnoecology, "kinds of place," and "cultural landscape" / Leslie Main Johnson -- Journeying and remembering: Anishinaabe landscape ethnoecology from northwestern Ontario / Iain Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes -- What's in a name? Southern Paiute place names as keys to landscape perception / Catherine S. Fowler -- Managing Maya landscapes: Quintana Roo, Mexico / E.N. Anderson -- Landscape ethnoecology: reflections / Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn. |
| Summary |
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 a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Landscape assessment.
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Landscape ecology.
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Human geography.
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Ethnoecology.
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Traditional ecological knowledge.
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Geographical perception.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. |
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science. |
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Geographical perception. |
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Human geography. |
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Ethnoecology. |
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Landscape assessment. |
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Landscape ecology. |
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Traditional ecological knowledge. |
| Added Author |
Johnson, Leslie M., editor.
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Hunn, Eugene S., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Landscape ethnoecology. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845456139 (DLC) 2009025446 (OCoLC)421148116 |
| ISBN |
9781845458041 (electronic book) |
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1845458044 (electronic book) |
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9781845456139 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1845456130 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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