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Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

AvThomas Henfrey

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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 socio-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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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781807580537

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Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. His previous publications include Wapishana Ethnoecology, Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation and the edited volume Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.

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“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

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART 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’.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 Babylonian EcologiesChapter 12. Cultural Edges and FrontiersConclusionReferencesIndex