Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia : : Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives /

Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia : : Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives / / ed. by Miguel N. Alexiades.

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alexiades, Miguel N.,
Clement, Charles R.,
Cole, David M.,
De Athayde, Simone Ferreira,
Dudley, Meredith,
Feather, Conrad,
Kaiabi, Aturi,
Micarelli, Giovanna,
Newing, Helen,
Ono, Katia Yukari,
Padoch, Christine,
Pinedo-Vasquez, Miguel,
Rival, Laura,
Voeks, Robert,
Zent, Stanford,
HerausgeberIn:
Alexiades, Miguel N.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Editor’s Preface
  • CHAPTER 1 Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives – an Introduction
  • PART I CIRCULATIONS: MOBILITY, SUBSISTENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • CHAPTER 2 Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming Plants
  • CHAPTER 3 The Restless Life of the Nahua: Shaping People and Places in the Peruvian Amazon
  • CHAPTER 4 Urban, Rural and In-between: Multi-sited Households Mobility and Resource Management in the Amazon Flood Plain
  • CHAPTER 5 Unpicking ‘Community’ in Community Conservation: Implications of Changing Settlement Patterns and Individual Mobility for the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve, Peru
  • PART II TRANSFORMATIONS: KNOWLEDGE, IDENTITY, PLACE-MAKING AND THE DOMESTICATION OF NATURE
  • CHAPTER 6 Domestication of Peach Palm (Bactris gasipaes): the Roles of Human Mobility and Migration
  • CHAPTER 7 Intermediation, Ethnogenesis and Landscape Transformation at the Intersection of the Andes and the Amazon: the Historical Ecology of the Lecos of Apolo, Bolivia
  • CHAPTER 8 The Political Ecology of Ethnic Frontiers and Relations among the Piaroa of the Middle Orinoco
  • CHAPTER 9 ‘Ordenar El Pensamiento’: Place-Making and the Moral Management of Resources in a Multi- Ethnic Territory, Amazonas, Colombia
  • CHAPTER 10 Plants ‘of the Ancestors’, Plants ‘of the Outsiders’: Ese Eja History, Migration and Medicinal Plants
  • CHAPTER 11 Weaving Power: Displacement and the Dynamics of Basketry Knowledge amongst the Kaiabi in the Brazilian Amazon
  • CHAPTER 12 Traditions in Transition: African Diaspora Ethnobotany in Lowland South America
  • Index

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