Landscape Ethnoecology

Leslie Main Johnson is Associate Professor in the Centre for Social Science, Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. Her publications include Trails of Story, Traveller’s Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape (Athabasca University Press, 2010), chapters on landscape in Landscape and Language, Benjamins 2011 and Ethnobiology, Wiley 2011," and articles in Human Ecology, Journal of Ethnobiology, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, and Botany.

• List of FiguresList of TablesChapter 1. IntroductionLeslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. HunnPART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 2. Towards a Theory of Landscape Ethnoecological ClassificationEugene S. Hunn and Brien A. MeilleurChapter 3. Ethnophysiography of Arid Lands: Categories for Landscape FeaturesDavid M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk and David SteaPART II: LANDSCAPE CLASSIFICATION - OF ECOTYPES, BIOTYPES, LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS AND FOREST TYPESChapter 4. Landscape perception, classification and use among Sahelian Fulani in Burkina Faso (West-Africa)Julia KrohmerChapter 5. Baniwa Habitat Classification in the White-Sand Campinarana Forests of the Northwest AmazonMarcia Barbosa Abraão, João Cláudio Baniwa, Bruce W. Nelson, Geraldo Andrello, Douglas W. Yu and Glenn H. Shepard Jr.Chapter 6. Why aren’t the Nuaulu like the Matsigenka? Knowledge and categorization of forest diversity on Seram, eastern IndonesiaRoy EllenChapter 7. The cultural significance of the habitat mañaco taco to the Maijuna of the Peruvian AmazonMichael P. Gilmore, Sebastián Ríos Ochoa and Samuel Ríos FloresChapter 8. The structure and role of folk ecological knowledge in Les Allues, Savoie (France)Brien MeilleurChapter 9. Life on the Ice: Understanding the Codes of a Changing EnvironmentClaudio AportaPART III: LINKAGES AND MEANINGS - OF LANDSCAPES AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPESChapter 10. Visions of the Land - Kaska Ethnoecology, “Kinds of Place” and “Cultural Landscape”Leslie Main JohnsonChapter 11. Journeying and Remembering: Anishinaabe Landscape Ethnoecology from Northwestern OntarioIain Davidson-Hunt and Fikret BerkesChapter 12. What's In a Word? Southern Paiute Place Names as Keys to Environmental PerceptionCatherine S. FowlerChapter 13. Managing Maya Landscapes: Quintana Roo, MexicoE. N. AndersonPART IV: CONCLUSIONSChapter 14. Landscape Ethnoecology - ReflectionsLeslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. HunnNotes on ContributorsIndex

“Despite the diversity of approaches, the various papers are well structured, with numerous cross-references that make it possible to appreciate the general development of the subject… I found this book very interesting, although very specialised. It is particularly suited to an academic audience; in particular, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, and geographers. But, the book can be also appreciated by all those interested in the interaction between man and the environment.” · International Journal of Environmental Studies“This edited collection gives an important and thought provoking overview of recent debates and work united under the rubric of cultural landscape research. The eleven substantive case studies, taken primarily from indigenous societies across North and South America, each provide a strong argument for questioning or better specifying definitions on the meaning of place for various societies…a suggestive collection that I would recommend highly.” · Anthropos “[The editors] have brought together many of the most innovative thinkers and field workers to ponder how local communities make sense of the landscapes in which they live, and upon which they depend. This volume is rich with insights about how cultures perceive the spaces, landforms and habitats which nourish them.” · Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., author, Singing the Turtles to Sea and Cultures of Habitat“This landmark volume is bound to become a theoretical touchstone and wellspring for assessing the unity and diversity of human conceptualizations of landscape. It deftly combines a rigorous review of cross-cultural theories of landscape perception and classification with richly-detailed ethnographic examples of landscape ethnoecology.” · Thomas F. Thornton, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford