| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 11 |
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Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
Title page-Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Editor's preface; Chapter 1-Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contenporary Ethnoecological Perspectives-an Introduction; Part I-Circulations: Mobility, Subsistence and the Environment; Chapter 2-Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming Plants; Chapter 3-The Restless Life of the Nahua: Shaping People and Places in the Peruvian Amazon |
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Chapter 4-Urban, Rural and In-between: Multi-sited Households Mobility and Resource Management in the Amazon Flood PlainChapter 5-Unpicking 'Community' in Community Conservation: Implications of Changing Settlement Patterns and Individual Mobility for the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve, Peru; Part II-Transformations: Knowledge, Identity, Place-Making and The Domestication of Nature; Chapter 6-Domestication of Peach Palm (Bactris Gasipaes): the Roles of Human Mobility and Migration; Chapter 7-Internediation |
| Summary |
Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Migrations
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Migration, Internal -- Amazon River Region
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Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany -- Amazon River Region
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Human geography -- Amazon River Region
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Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region
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Biodiversity -- Amazon River Region
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Biodiversity
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Human geography
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Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany
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Indians of South America -- Migrations
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Ethnoecology
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Migration, Internal
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Amazon River Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alexiades, Miguel N., 1962-
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| ISBN |
9781845459079 |
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1845459075 |
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