Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is a timely edition, bringing together in one volume dispersed material, published orginally in Portuguese or English, that previously was not easily available...One of the merits of the book is that it provides stimulation for further research on sustainable development. It proves how blind Western man has been to the ecological knowledge of other cultures, and it warns of the perlis of procrastination in the face of erosion, disertification, and the exhaustion of natural resources.."
-Journal of Anthropological Research
Book Description
Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of the late Darrel A. Posey's writings, the result of 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. This provocative selection describes the dispersal of the Kayapó sub-groups and explains how useful biological species and natural resource management strategies spread. It also documents the threatened extinction of the Kayap'o, showing how scientists are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.
Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture (Studies in Environmental Anthropology),DARRELL POSEY,Routledge,0415277914,Agriculture,Agriculture - General,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,Cayapo Indians,Ethnobiology,Ethnobotany,General,Indigenous peoples,Social Science,Sociology,Amazon river,Social & cultural anthropology
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