Landscape Ethnoecology : : Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space / / ed. by Leslie Main Johnson, Eugene S. Hunn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abraão, Marcia Barbosa,; Anderson, E. N.,; Andrello, Geraldo,; Aporta, Claudio,; Baniwa, João Cláudio,; Berkes, Fikret,; Davidson-Hunt, Iain,; Ellen, Roy,; Flores, Samuel Ríos,; Fowler, Catherine S.,; Gilmore, Michael P.,; Hunn, Eugene S.,; Johnson, Leslie Main,; Krohmer, Julia,; Mark, David M.,; Meilleur, Brien A.,; Nelson, Bruce W.,; Ochoa, Sebastián Ríos,; Shepard, Jr,; Stea, David,; Turk, Andrew G.,; Yu, Douglas W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hunn, Eugene S.,; Johnson, Leslie Main,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

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 above the level of species and their folk classification. Focusing on the ways traditional people perceive and manage land and biotic resources within diverse regional and cultural settings, the contributors address theoretical issues and present case studies from North America, Mexico, Amazonia, tropical Asia, Africa and Europe.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction. Landscape Ethnoecology: Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space -- PART 1 Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Toward a Theory of Landscape Ethnoecological Classification -- Chapter 2 Ethnophysiography of Arid Lands Categories for Landscape Features -- PART 2 Landscape Classification: Ecotopes, Biotopes, Landscape Elements, and Forest Types -- Chapter 3 Landscape Perception, Classifi cation, and Use among Sahelian Fulani in Burkina Faso -- Chapter 4 Baniwa Vegetation Classifi cation i in the White-Sand Campinarana Habitat of the Northwest Amazon, Brazil -- Chapter 5 Why Aren’t the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka? Knowledge and Categorization of Forest Diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia -- Chapter 6 The Cultural Significance of the Habitat Mañaco Taco to the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon -- Chapter 7 The Structure and Role of Folk Ecological Knowledge in Les Allues, Savoie (France) -- Chapter 8 Life on the Ice: Understanding the Codes of a Changing Environment -- PART 3 Linkages and Meanings of Landscapes and Cultural Landscapes -- Chapter 9 Visions of the Land Kaska Ethnoecology, “Kinds of Place,” and “Cultural Landscape” -- Chapter 10 Journeying and Remembering: Anishinaabe Landscape Ethnoecology from Northwestern Ontario -- Chapter 11 What’s in a Name? Southern Paiute Place Names as Keys to Landscape Perception -- Chapter 12 Managing Maya Landscapes: Quintana Roo, Mexico -- PART 4 Conclusions -- Chapter 13 Landscape Ethnoecology: Reflections -- Notes on Contributors -- Index