Edges, Fringes, Frontiers : : Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana / / Thomas Henfrey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Henfrey, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Part I Edges --; Chapter 1 Edges, Fringes, Frontiers --; Chapter 2 Integral Theory and Integral Ecology --; Chapter 3 Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology --; Chapter 4 Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology --; Chapter 5 Babylon and the ‘Crisis of Modernity’ --; Part II Fringes --; Introduction --; Chapter 6 Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence --; Chapter 7 A Plural Reality --; Chapter 8 Panarchy in the Deep South --; Chapter 9 Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence --; Chapter 10 An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence --; Part III Frontiers --; Chapter 11 Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies --; Chapter 12 Cultural Edges and Frontiers --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339899; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339899?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Henfrey.

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.