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Cultural forests of the Amazon : a historical ecology of people and their landscapes
Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balée’s research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon , he argues that indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years. Balée demonstrates the inestimable value of indigenous knowledge in providing guideposts for a potentially less destructive future for environments and biota in the Amazon. He shows that we can no longer think about species and landscape diversity in any tropical forest without taking into account the intricacies of human history and the impact of all forms of knowledge and technology. Balée describes the development of his historical ecology approach in Amazonia, along with important material on little-known forest dwellers and their habitats, current thinking in Amazonian historical ecology, and a narrative of his own dialogue with the Amazon and its people.
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Revenant Ecologies
Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to
articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties
about the future of the earth's ecosystems are fueling ever more
ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific
principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant
Ecologies , Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only
ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like
colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and
heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of
unique life forms and ecosystems.
Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and
biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies
and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant
Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical
enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious
framework-(bio)plurality-that focuses on nurturing unique,
irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to
transform global ecological-political relations, including through
processes of land return and critically confronting discourses on
\"human extinction.\"
Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of
\"extinction,\" \"conservation,\" and \"biodiversity,\" Revenant
Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence
studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also
foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively
defying the forms of violence that drive extinction-and that shape
global efforts to manage it.
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Traditional ecological knowledge : learning from indigenous practices for environmental sustainability
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indigenous and ecological knowledge production and maintenance, they focus on how environmental values and ethics are applied to the uses of land. Grounded in an understanding of the profound relationship between biological and cultural diversity, this book defines, interrogates, and problematizes, the many definitions of traditional ecological knowledge and sustainability. It includes a holistic and broad disciplinary approach to sustainability, including language, art, and ceremony, as critical ways to maintain healthy human-environment relations.
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Indian time: time, seasonality, and culture in Traditional Ecological Knowledge of climate change
IntroductionWestern climate science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) represent complementary and overlapping views of the causes and consequences of change. In particular, observations of changes in abundance, distribution, phenology, or behavior of the natural environment (including plants and animals) can have a rich cultural and spiritual interpretation in Indigenous communities that may not be present in western science epistemologies.ResultsUsing interviews with Indigenous elders and other Traditional Knowledge holders, we demonstrate that assumptions about the nature, perception, and utilization of time and timing can differ across knowledge systems in regard to climate change.ConclusionsOur interviewees’ focus on relationality predisposes them to notice interactional changes among humans and other species, to be sensitive to smaller scale examples of change, to be more likely to see climate change as part of a broader time scale, and to link changes to a greater suite of socio-political phenomena, including the long arc of colonialism. One implication of this research and the interactions among humans and other species is that policies restricting Native and non-Native access to resources (i.e., hunting and fishing) to certain calendar seasons may need to be revisited in a changing climate.
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The science of the sacred : bridging global indigenous medicine systems and modern scientific principles
\"Based on current medical research, Native American and naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers identifies traditional healing methods developed centuries ago that address modern ailments and medical processes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Traditions, Traps and Trends
The transfer of knowledge is a key issue in the North as Indigenous Peoples meet the ongoing need to adapt to cultural and environmental change. In eight essays, experts survey critical issues surrounding the knowledge practices of the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland and the Northern Sámi of Scandinavia, and the difficulties of transferring that knowledge from one generation to the next. Reflecting the ongoing work of the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures, these multidisciplinary essays offer fresh understandings through history and across geography as scholars analyze cultural, ecological, and political aspects of peoples in transition. Traditions, Traps and Trends is an important book for students and scholars in anthropology and ethnography and for everyone interested in the Circumpolar North. Contributors: Cunera Buijs, Frédéric Laugrand, Barbara Helen Miller, Thea Olsthoorn, Jarich Oosten, Willem Rasing, Kim van Dam, Nellejet Zorgdrager
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