Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 417 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231135629
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0231509618
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9780231135627
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9780231509619
Serie:
The historical ecology series
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002
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Machine generated contents note: Time, complexity, and historical ecology
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1. feral forests of the Eastern Peten
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2. neotropical framework for Terra Preta
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3. Domesticated food and society in early coastal Peru
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4. Microvertebrate synecology and anthropogenic footprints in the forested neotropics
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5. Pre-European forest cultivation in Amazonia
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6. Fruit trees and the transition to food production in Amazonia
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7. historical ecology of a complex landscape in Bolivia
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8. domesticated landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon
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9. Political economy and pre-Columbian landscape transformations in Central Amazonia
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10. History, ecology, and alterity : visualizing polity in ancient Amazonia
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11. Between the ship and the bulldozer : historical ecology of Guaja subsistence, sociality, and symbolism after 1500
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology (2002 : Tulane University) Time and complexity in historical ecology New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Konferenzschrift
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