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Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia

Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Herausgeber: Alexiades, Miguel N.

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780857457974
• ISBN-10: 0857457977
• Artikelnr.: 36833790