Title Cultural Forests of the Amazon : a Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes / William Balée

Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Landscape Transformations. Villages of Vines and Trees ; An Estimate of Anthropogenesis ; Comparison of High and Fallow Forests -- Contact and Attrition. People of the Fallow Forest ; Vanishing Plant Names ; Conquest and Migration -- Illustrations -- Indigenous Savoir Faire. From Their Point of View ; Retention of Traditional Knowledge ; Confection, Inflection -- Dimensions of Diversity. Discernment of Environmental Variation ; Rethinking the Landscape -- Appendix I. Guajá Generic Plant Names -- Appendix II. Trees of the Anthropogenic Forest Summary This book is a comprehensive and diverse account of how Indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought Indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. The author's research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. He argues that Indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-247) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Urubu Kaapor Indians -- Ethnobotany Urubu Kaapor Indians -- Philosophy Urubu Kaapor Indians -- Social conditions Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region Traditional ecological knowledge -- Amazon River Region Cultural landscapes -- Amazon River Region Rain forest ecology -- Amazon River Region SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany. Cultural landscapes Ecology Ethnoecology Rain forest ecology Social conditions Traditional ecological knowledge Amazon River Region -- Social conditions Amazon River Region -- Environmental conditions Amazon River Region Form Electronic book ISBN 9780817386559 0817386556

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