Main Johnson Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path

Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-897425-36-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

Leslie Main Johnson draws on her rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en of northwestern BC, the Kaska Dene of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich’in of the Mackenzie Delta to examine the meaning of landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Main Johnson, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Trails and Visions: Reflections on Ethnoecology, Landscape, and Knowing
Chapter 2. Landscape Ethnoecology: Nexus of People, Land, and Lifeways
Chapter 3. Trail of Story: Gitksan Understanding of Land and Place
Chapter 4. Traveller’s Path: Witsuwit’en Knowledge of the Land
Chapter 5. Of Berry Patches: What Makes a Kind of Place?
Chapter 6. Lookouts, Moose Licks, and Fish Lakes: Considering Kaska Understanding of the Land
Chapter 7. Envisioning Ethnoecology: Movement through Place and Season
Chapter 8. A Gwich’in Year on the Land
Chapter 9. Of Nets and Nodes: Reflections on Dene Ethnoecology and Landscape
Chapter 10. Of Named Places
Chapter 11. Trails versus Polygons: Contrasting Visions of the Land
Chapter 12. Implications: GIS and the Storied Landscape
Chapter 13. The Ecology of Knowing the Land Endnotes / References / Index

Über Autor(innen)

Main Johnson Leslie:
Leslie Main Johnson is associate professor in the Centre for Work and Community Studies and the Centre for Integrated Studies, Athabasca University. Her research interests include ethnoecology, traditional knowledge, ethnobiology, subsistence, and concepts of health and healing among First Nations in northwestern Canada. She is co-editor of Landscape Ethnoecology, Concepts of Physical and Biotic Space, with Eugene S. Hunn.Leslie Main Johnson is associate professor in the Centre for Work and Community Studies and the Centre for Integrated Studies, Athabasca University. Her research interests include ethnoecology, traditional knowledge, ethnobiology, subsistence, and concepts of health and healing among First Nations in northwestern Canada. She is co-editor of Landscape Ethnoecology, Concepts of Physical and Biotic Space, with Eugene S. Hunn. She blogs at www.reflectionsonnaturecultureandsociety.blogspot.com.