LEADER 02985nam 2200433 450 001 9910725057103321 005 20230701133031.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000002601073 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000002601073 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002601073 100 $a20230701d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultural context of biodiversity conservation /$fPetra Maass 210 1$aGo?ttingen :$cUniversita?tsverlag Go?ttingen,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (283 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aGo?ttinger Beitra?ge zur Ethnologie, ;$vBand 2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- 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. 330 $aHow are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on. 410 0$aGo?ttinger Beitra?ge zur Ethnologie ;$vBand 2. 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aEthnoscience 606 $aBiodiversity conservation 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aEthnoscience. 615 0$aBiodiversity conservation. 676 $a333.9516 700 $aMaass$b Petra$0800871 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725057103321 996 $aCultural context of biodiversity conservation$93393951 997 $aUNINA