Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-988-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 270 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henfrey, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I: EDGES

Chapter 1. Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Chapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral Ecology

Chapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology

Chapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology

Chapter 5. Babylon and the ‘Crisis of Modernity’.

PART II: FRINGES

Chapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence

Chapter 7. A Plural Reality

Chapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep South

Chapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence

Chapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence

PART III: FRONTIERS

Chapter 11. Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies

Chapter 12. Cultural Edges and Frontiers

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henfrey, Thomas
Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. His previous publications include Wapishana Ethnoecology, Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation and the edited volume Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.

Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. His previous publications include Wapishana Ethnoecology, Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation and the edited volume Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.