Kayapo ethnoecology and culture / / Darrell A. Posey ; edited by Kristina Plenderleith

• Autore: Posey Darrell Addison <1947, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.08998; 630/.89/984; 982
• Soggetto topico: Cayapo Indians - Ethnobotany; Cayapo Indians - Ethnobiology; Cayapo Indians - Agriculture; Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Brazil - Gorotire
• Soggetto geografico: Gorotire (Brazil) Social life and customs; Gorotire (Brazil) Environmental conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PlenderleithKristina <1944->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kayapó sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the Kayapó are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for s
• Titolo autorizzato: Kayapo ethnoecology and culture
• ISBN: 1-134-47142-4; 0-415-75378-3; 1-280-09855-4; 0-203-22019-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451355703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in environmental anthropology ; ; v. 6.