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19 produkter
Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture
Av Darrell A. Posey, Kristina Plenderleith
Inbunden, 2002
2512 kr
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Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the …
Managing Animals in New Guinea
Preying the Game in the Highlands
Inbunden, 2003
2512 kr
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Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and …
Development and Local Knowledge
Av Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
764 kr
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There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people.Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that …
Nage Birds
Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people
Inbunden, 2003
1521 kr
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This unusual and richly-illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. Based on fieldwork carried out over a period of some fifteen years, it aims for a total view of how a human community interacts with …
Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics
A Darrell Posey Reader
Av Darrell A. Posey, Kristiana Plenderleith
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the …
Development and Local Knowledge
Av Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
371 kr
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There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people.Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that …
Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics
A Darrell Posey Reader
Av Darrell A. Posey, Kristiana Plenderleith
Häftad, 2011
910 kr
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Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the …
Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture
Av Darrell A. Posey, Kristina Plenderleith
Häftad, 2015
764 kr
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Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the …
Managing Animals in New Guinea
Preying the Game in the Highlands
Häftad, 2013
750 kr
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Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and …
Nage Birds
Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people
Häftad, 2013
531 kr
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This unusual and richly-illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. Based on fieldwork carried out over a period of some fifteen years, it aims for a total view of how a human community interacts with …
Place Against Time
Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Häftad, 2016
504 kr
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A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation …
Place Against Time
Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Inbunden, 1997
1521 kr
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A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation …
People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East
Environments and Landscapes in the Bilad ash-Sham
Av William Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster
Inbunden, 1999
2586 kr
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The result of twenty-five years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic descriptions of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others. Having become aware of the depth in time of Arab …
Protecting the Arctic
Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Av Mark Nuttall
Inbunden, 1998
2512 kr
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Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how …
Protecting the Arctic
Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Av Mark Nuttall
Häftad, 1998
739 kr
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Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how …
Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
Av Tania Li
Inbunden, 1999
2512 kr
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Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource …
Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
Av Tania Li
Häftad, 1999
648 kr
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Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource …
Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations
Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Av Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2512 kr
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The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional …
Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations
Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Av Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
812 kr
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The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional …
