Kayapó ethnoecology and culture /

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Author / Creator:Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6
Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011409
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Other authors / contributors:Plenderleith, Kristina, 1944-
ISBN:0203220196
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947- Kayapó ethnoecology and culture. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002