Darrell A. Posey

Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Plenderleith, Kristina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kayapo sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the Kayapo are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for scientists to just do 'good science'. They are are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134471416
• Artikelnr.: 42641013

Autorenporträt

Darrell A. Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Edited by Kristina Plenderleith.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Kayapó history and culture 1 The science of the Mebêngôkre 2 Contact
before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern
Kayapó of the Amazon 3 Environmental and social implications of pre- and
post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians 4 Time, space, and the
interface of divergent cultures: the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon face the
future 5 The Kayapó origin of night 6 The journey to become a shaman: a
narrative of sacred transition of the Kayapó Indians of Brazil PART II
Ethnobiology and the Kayapó Project 7 Report from Gorotire: will Kayapó
traditions survive? 8 Indigenous knowledge and development: an ideological
bridge to the future 9 Wasps, warriors and fearless men: ethnoentomology of
the Kayapó Indians of Central Brazil 10 Hierarchy and utility in a folk
biological taxonomic system: patterns in classification of arthropods by
the Kayapó Indians of Brazil 11 Additional notes on the classification and
knowledge of stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera) by the
Kayapó Indians of Gorotire, Pará, Brazil 12 Keeping of stingless bees by
the Kayapó Indians of Brazil 13 Ethnopharmacological search for antiviral
compounds: treatment of gastrointestinal disorders by Kayapó medical
specialists 14 Use of contraceptive and related plants by the Kayapó
Indians (Brazil) PART III Kayapó land management 15 Preliminary results on
soil management techniques of the Kayapó Indians 16 Indigenous soil
management in the Latin American tropics: some implications of
ethnopedology for the Amazon Basin 17 The keepers of the forest 18
Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayapó
Indians of the Brazilian Amazon 19 The continuum of Kayapó resource
management PART IV Continuing adaptation by the Kayapó 20 From warclubs to
words 21 The Kayapó Indian protests against Amazonian dams: successes,
alliances, and unending battles