Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia : contemporary ethnoecological perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 11 Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 11.
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Migrations. Migration, Internal -- Amazon River Region. Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany -- Amazon River Region. Human geography -- Amazon River Region. Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region. Biodiversity -- Amazon River Region. Biodiversity Human geography Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany Indians of South America -- Migrations Ethnoecology Migration, Internal Amazon River Region
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13912178

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Other authors / contributors:	Alexiades, Miguel N., 1962-
ISBN:	9781845459079 1845459075 9781845455637 1845455630
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre.
Other form:	Print version: Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia. New York : Berghahn Books, 2009 9786612627668

Table of Contents:

Title page-Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Editor's preface; Chapter 1-Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contenporary Ethnoecological Perspectives-an Introduction; Part I-Circulations: Mobility, Subsistence and the Environment; Chapter 2-Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming Plants; Chapter 3-The Restless Life of the Nahua: Shaping People and Places in the Peruvian Amazon.
Chapter 4-Urban, Rural and In-between: Multi-sited Households Mobility and Resource Management in the Amazon Flood PlainChapter 5-Unpicking 'Community' in Community Conservation: Implications of Changing Settlement Patterns and Individual Mobility for the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve, Peru; Part II-Transformations: Knowledge, Identity, Place-Making and The Domestication of Nature; Chapter 6-Domestication of Peach Palm (Bactris Gasipaes): the Roles of Human Mobility and Migration; Chapter 7-Internediation.

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