Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia : contemporary ethnoecological perspectives /: contemporary ethnoecological perspectives. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Miguel N. Alexiades.
• Other Names: Alexiades, Miguel N, 1962-
• 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 310 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 307.2089/980811; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Migrations; Migration, Internal -- Amazon River Region; Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany -- Amazon River Region; Human geography -- Amazon River Region; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Amazon River Region; Biodiversity -- Amazon River Region; History; Social Science; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Biodiversity; Human geography; Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany; Indians of South America -- Migrations; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; Migration, Internal; Amazon River Region; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459079; 1845459075
• Related ISBNs: 9781845455637; 1845455630
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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