03853 am 22006253u 450 99619855830331620221123175254.0(CKB)3450000000002793(MH)012326550-9(SSID)ssj0000985843(PQKBManifestationID)11628345(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000985843(PQKBWorkID)10933284(PQKB)10632392(WaSeSS)Ind00074186(EXLCZ)99345000000000279320100526d2008 fy| 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe cultural context of biodiversity conservation seen and unseen dimensions of Indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala /Petra Maass[Göttingen], Germany :Universitätsverlag Göttingen,2008.©20081 online resource (283 pages) illustrations ; digital, PDF file(s)Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie,1866-0711 ;volume 2Originally presented as the author's thesis (Universität Göttingen, 2007).3940344192 Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-280).Acknowledgements --Prologue --Abbreviations --Introduction-from global to local --The global context- international policies and local environments --The discursive context- conceptual approaches from anthropology --The local context-national policies and indigenous communities --Local expressions of indigenous knowledge --Concluding remarks- from local to global --Epilogue.How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie ;volume 2.Biodiversity conservationGuatemalaBiodiversity conservationSocial aspectsGuatemalaKekchi IndiansScienceEthnoscienceGuatemalaEarth & Environmental SciencesHILCCEcologyHILCCElectronic books.Biodiversity conservationBiodiversity conservationSocial aspectsKekchi IndiansScience.EthnoscienceEarth & Environmental SciencesEcology333.9516097281Maass Petra800871TOZTOZUKMaJRUBOOK996198558303316The cultural context of biodiversity conservation1986054UNISA