Cutting the Vines of the Past
Subtitle: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813921037
Subjects: Cultural studies; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Indigenous peoples; Management of land & natural resources; Social & cultural anthropology; Nature; Environmental Studies; Central African Republic; Mpiemo (African people); History: World; Central Africa; Geographical perception; Africa - Central; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Trees & Forests - Rainforests; Case studies; Africa - General; Effect of human beings on; History
First sentence: MPIEMU HAVE have constituted doli both as a way of interpreting the past and environments and as a composite historical category, a set of spatial and bodily sites and objects, practices, didactic tales, and narratives that articulate and debate claims of truth about the past and sustain claims to authority.