Landscape ethnoecology : concepts of biotic and physical space

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Landscape ethnoecology : concepts of biotic and physical space / edited by Leslie Main Johnson & Eugene S. Hunn.

Johnson, Leslie Main. (Editor). Hunn, Eugene S. (Editor).

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 offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780857456311 (pbk)
ISBN: 0857456318 (pbk)
ISBN: 0857456326
ISBN: 9780857456328
Physical Description: xi, 319 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, cop. 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:: First edition published in 2010.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.