Del 23 i serien Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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 social-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-14
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEnvironmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Antal sidor270
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785339882

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PrefaceList of FiguresPART I: EDGESChapter 1. Edges, Fringes, FrontiersChapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral EcologyChapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological AnthropologyChapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological AnthropologyChapter 5. Babylon and the 'Crisis of Modernity'.p>PART II: FRINGESChapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and SubsistenceChapter 7. A Plural RealityChapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep SouthChapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana SubsistenceChapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana SubsistencePART III: FRONTIERSChapter 11. Traditional and Babylon EcologiesChapter 12. Cultural Edges and FrontiersReferences

“Henfrey offers a complex and creative way to rethink the climate crisis, with a sharp critique of dominant, Western shaped approaches, emerging from his ethnographic material, and guided by a complicated and nuanced theoretical framework… Overall, this book provides a new way to explore our environmental crisis and fundamentally rethink [our] understanding of, characterization of and engagement with our natural environment.” • Anthropos