Landscape ethnoecology
Subtitle: concepts of biotic and physical space
By: edited by Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn.
Contributors: Johnson, Leslie M.; Hunn, Eugene S.
Series: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781845456139
Subjects: Landscape assessment; Landscape ecology; Human geography; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; Traditional ecological knowledge; Geographical perception
Description: "Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.