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Ethnoecology
Situated Knowledge/Located Lives
Häftad, 1999
648 kr
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The re-emerging field of ethnoecology offers a promising way to document and analyze human-environment interactions. This collection brings the discipline into sharp focus, conveying local understandings of environments and proposing a way of looking at the relationship between humans and the …
Cultural Memory and Biodiversity
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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Seed and gene banks have made great strides in preserving the biological diversity of traditional agricultural plant species, but they have tended to ignore a serious component: the knowledge about those crops and methods of farming held by the people who have long raised them. Virginia Nazarea now …
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers
Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
Häftad, 2014
343 kr
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Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, healing, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. …
Moveable Gardens
Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory
Av Virginia D. Nazarea, Terese Gagnon
Häftad, 2021
398 kr
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Moveable Gardens explores how biodiversity and food can counter the alienation caused by displacement. By offering in-depth studies on a variety of regions, this volume carefully considers various forms of sanctuary making within communities, and seeks to address how carrying seeds, plants, and …
Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope
Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity
Av Virginia D. Nazarea, Robert E. Rhoades m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
412 kr
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Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well as physically. It holds memories. In fact, one of the surprising consequences of globalization and urbanization is the expanding web of emotional attachments to farmland, to food …
Cuentos de la creación y resistencia
Stories of creation and resistance
Av Rafael Guitarra, Virginia D. Nazarea
E-bok, 2004
168 kr
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Este libro presenta cuentos sobre la creación y la resistencia, dos temas que parecen permear las historias, leyendas y mitos que comparten los indígenas de Cotacachi en el norte ecuatoriano. Durante casi media década hemos colaborado con la población local en la documentación de cuentos e …
