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Author Velásquez Runk, Julie, author

Title Crafting Wounaan landscapes : identity, art, and environmental governance in Panama's Darien / Julie Velásquez Runk
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Crafting Wounaan Landscapes; 1. "Wild Darién": An Inhabited and Traversed Landscape; 2. Histories Less Narrated: Always Wounaan; 3. Social and River Networks for the Trees: Wounaan Cosmological Landscape; 4. Temporal Landscapes: Changing Histories Through Basketry and Carvings; 5. Spatial Landscapes: A Mosaic of Forest Uses; 6. Science and Politics of Environmental Governance Landscapes; Conclusion. Crafting Wounaan Futures; Note on Orthography and Pronunciation
Appendix 1. Forest Ecology and Satellite-Image Analysis MethodsAppendix 2. Scientific Names; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
Summary "This book reveals how indigenous Wounaan practice conservation in the face of national and international environmental governance"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Environmental policy -- Panama -- Darien (Province)
Waunana Indians -- Panama -- Darien (Province)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Environmental policy
Waunana Indians
Panama -- Darien (Province)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816536283
0816536287