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...

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