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Other authors / contributors: | Plenderleith, Kristina, 1944-
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ISBN: | 0203220196 9780203220191 9780415277914 0415277914 9786610098552 6610098557 9781134471423 1134471424 9781134471379 1134471378 9781134471416 1134471416 9780415753784 0415753783 0415277914 1280098554 9781280098550
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, VLEbooks 1 User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947- Kayapó ethnoecology and culture. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002
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