Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 285 p)
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ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0203220196
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0415277914
Series Statement:
Studies in environmental anthropology v. 6
Content:
This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-279) and index
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Kayap history and culture; The science of the Mbngkre; Contact before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern Kayap of the Amazon; Environmental and social implications of pre- and post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians; Time, space, and the interface of divergent cultures: the Kayap Indians of the Amazon face the future; The Kayap origin of night; The journey to become a shaman: a narrative of sacred transition of the Kayap Indians of Brazil
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Ethnobiology and the Kayap ProjectReport from Gorotire: will Kayap traditions survive?; Indigenous knowledge and development: an ideological bridge to the future; Wasps, warriors and fearless men: ethnoentomology of the Kayap Indians of Central Brazil; Hierarchy and utility in a folk biological taxonomic system: patterns in classification of arthropods by the Kayap Indians of Brazil; Additional notes on the classification and knowledge of stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera) by the Kayap Indians of Gorotire, Par, Brazil with
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Keeping of stingless bees by the Kayap Indians of BrazilEthnopharmacological search for antiviral compounds: treatment of gastrointestinal disorders by Kayap medical specialists with; Use of contraceptive and related plants by the Kayap Indians (Brazil) with; Kayap land management; Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayap Indians with; Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: some implications of ethnopedology for the Amazon Basin with; The keepers of the forest
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Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayap Indians of the Brazilian AmazonThe continuum of Kayap resource management; Continuing adaptation by the Kayap; From warclubs to words; The Kayap Indian protests against Amazonian dams: successes, alliances, and unending battles; Appendix: management of a tropical scrub savanna by the Gorotire Kayap of Brazil; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415277914
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture
Language:
English
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