Kayapó ethnoecology and culture / Darrell A. Posey ; edited by Kristina Plenderleith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947-

Contributor:

Plenderleith, Kristina, 1944-

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6.

Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cayapo Indians--Ethnobotany.

Cayapo Indians.

Cayapo Indians--Ethnobiology.

Cayapo Indians--Agriculture.

Ethnoecology--Brazil--Gorotire.

Ethnoecology.

Ethnobiology.

Brazil--Gorotire.

Gorotire (Brazil)--Social life and customs.

Gorotire (Brazil).

Gorotire (Brazil)--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

"Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture" presents a selection of the late Darrel A. Posey's writings, the result of 25 years of work with the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon Basin. This provocative selection describes the dispersal of the Kayapo sub-groups and explains how useful biological species and natural resource management strategies spread. It also documents the threatened extinction of the Kayap'o, showing how scientists are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-279) and index.

ISBN:

0415277914

OCLC:

48544339