Description |
1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The historical ecology series |
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Historical ecology series.
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Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Time, complexity, and historical ecology / William Balee / Clark L. Erickson -- 1. feral forests of the Eastern Peten / Karen S. Lowell / Anabel Ford / David G. Campbell / Jay Walker / Jeffrey K. Lake / Constanza Ocampo-Raeder / Andrew Townesmith / Michael Balick -- 2. neotropical framework for Terra Preta / Elizabeth Graham -- 3. Domesticated food and society in early coastal Peru / Christine A. Hastorf -- 4. Microvertebrate synecology and anthropogenic footprints in the forested neotropics / Peter W. Stahl -- 5. Pre-European forest cultivation in Amazonia / William M. Denevan -- 6. Fruit trees and the transition to food production in Amazonia / Charles R. Clement -- 7. historical ecology of a complex landscape in Bolivia / Clark L. Erickson / William Balee -- 8. domesticated landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon / Clark L. Erickson -- 9. Political economy and pre-Columbian landscape transformations in Central Amazonia / Eduardo G. Neves / James B. Petersen -- 10. History, ecology, and alterity : visualizing polity in ancient Amazonia / Michael Heckenberger -- 11. Between the ship and the bulldozer : historical ecology of Guaja subsistence, sociality, and symbolism after 1500 / Loretta A. Cormier |
Summary |
This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment. Contributors examine how alterations in the natural world mirror human cultures, societies, and languages. Treating the landscape like a text, these researchers decipher patterns and meaning in the Ecuadorian Andes, Amazonia, the desert coast of Peru, and other regions in the neotropi |
Notes |
Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Human ecology -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Human ecology -- Tropics -- Congresses
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Rain forest ecology -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Ethnobiology -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Agriculture -- Tropics -- Congresses
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Land use -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Landscape changes -- Latin America -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Agriculture
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Ethnobiology
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Human ecology
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Land use
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Landscape changes
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Rain forest ecology
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Latin America
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Tropics
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Balée, William L., 1954-
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Erickson, Clark L.
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LC no. |
2005049370 |
ISBN |
0231509618 |
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9780231509619 |
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