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Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture

open access: yesTipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2003
Book review of Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture. Darrel A. Posey (Kristina Plenderleith, editor). New York: Routledge, 2002. xviii + 285 pp., figures, tables, foreword, glossary, index.
Hern, Warren M
core   +3 more sources

Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

open access: yesQuaternary, 2021
The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations.
Charles R. Clement   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique

open access: yesRevue d'ethnoécologie, 2021
Our contribution focuses on revisiting the theme of maize and the regenerative traditional agricultural system called milpa (corn-beans-squash) in its cosmogonic, cognitive, and practical context within the Mesoamerican agricultural tradition.
Víctor M. Toledo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations

open access: yesStudia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
The southern Siberian Turkic groups were mostly unknown to outsiders when the Swedish scientist Johan Peter Falck (1732–1774) visited their settlements in the early 1770s.
Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg
doaj   +1 more source

Stratigraphy of volcanic memory: Sociocultural dimensions of volcanic risk in the Southern Andes, Chile

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1018-1033, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article focuses on communities that reoccupy territories affected by volcanic eruptions to extend understanding of people's social appropriation of environments exposed to natural hazards. We take as a case study three rural settlements affected by several eruptions from the Carran‐Los Venados and Puyehue‐Cordón Caulle volcanic systems ...
Francisca Vergara‐Pinto   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that ...
Améline Vallet   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

ETHNOECOLOGY OF Mussismilia braziliensis (Verrill 1868) IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CARAVELAS, BAHIA, BRAZIL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This work is the first record of the perception of fishers and artisanal fishers in the Caravela city- Bahia and its respective districts (Ponta de Areia and Barra de Caravelas) regarding the species Mussismilia braziliensis, its ethnozoological aspects ...
Figuerêdo, Juzenilda Gomes   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2014
Review of Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé. James R Welch, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Nancy M. Flowers, and Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. 2012. Museu do Índio/FUNAI, Rio de Janeiro. Pp. 244. ISBN 978-85-85986-46-9.
Nicholas C. Kawa
doaj   +1 more source

Heterogeneity in Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal: Implications for Conservation

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2004
The importance accorded to ethnoecological knowledge for suggesting new paths in scientific research, understanding ecological processes, and designing sustainable management of natural resources has grown in recent years. However, variation in knowledge
Suresh Kumar Ghimire   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural or Ecological Sustainability? The Effect of Cultural Change on Sabal Palm Management Among the Lowland Maya of Mexico

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2006
Sabal palm has been used for thatching the traditional Maya house for over 3000 yr. The great importance of this resource has promoted its management within home gardens.
Andrea Martínez-Ballesté   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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