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Islands in the rainforest : landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia / Stéphen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott.
Penn Museum Library F2460.2.A37 R68 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rostain, Stéphen.
- Series:
- New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 4.
- New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Agriculture--French Guiana.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Agriculture.
- Raised field agriculture.
- History.
- Indians of South America--Land tenure.
- French Guiana.
- Indians of South America--Land tenure--French Guiana.
- Raised field agriculture--French Guiana--History.
- Ethnoecology--French Guiana.
- Ethnoecology.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2012]
- Summary:
- Covers the area between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, the Cassiquiare Canal, and the Atlantic Ocean (Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, parts of Brazil, parts of Venezuela).
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Indigenous Agricultural Savoir Faire 33
- South American Raised Fields 35
- Other Agricultural Techniques 44
- Pre-Columbian Earthworks 49
- Chapter 2 Humans and Environment: A Happy Marriage 61
- General Characteristics 64
- The Tepuies 66
- The Savannas of Central Guiana 67
- The Forest: "A Green Paradise" 67
- The Coast 73
- A Virgin Forest? 87
- Chapter 3 Terra Cognita: 10,000 Years of Human Impact 91
- The Initial Settlement 93
- Fisher-Gatherers 98
- Ceramists and Cultivators 101
- Farmers 103
- Then Came the White Men 127
- A Tale of Tapirs... 131
- Chapter 4 A Natural Garden or a Domesticated Forest? 135
- Raised Fields of Guiana 136
- A Landscape Sculpted by Humans 164
- Maize versus Manioc 180
- Pre-Columbian Demography 184
- Chapter 5 "500 Years of Solitude" 189
- The Last Indigenous Raised Fields 192
- Colonists and the Lowlands of Guiana 195
- Creole Agricultural Beds 201
- Agriculture in the Savannas Today 210
- Disappearance and Preservation of Raised Fields 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781598746341
- 1598746340
- 9781598746365
- 1598746367
- 9781611326871
- 1611326877
- OCLC:
- 794361934
- Publisher Number:
- 99966980898
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