| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala |
| Author: |
MaassPetra, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
[Akron, Ohio] |
| Published: |
University of Akron Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Edition: |
North American ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (283 p.)ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). : |
| Series: |
Göttinger Beitröge zur Ethnologie |
| Subject: |
Landscape assessment - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Ethnology - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Protected areas - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Human ecology - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Kekchi Indians - Science - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Kekchi Indians - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Traditional ecological knowledge - Guatemala - |
| Subject: |
Biodiversity conservation - Social aspects - Guatemala - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781935603344/ |
| Notes: |
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE |
| Summary: |
How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dyclmics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenousknowledge. Itintends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions ofthe natural environment. The basic idea is toillustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on |
| ISBN: |
9781935603344electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1935603345electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9781931968805 |
| ISBN: |
1931968802 |
| Content Note: |
Introduction -- The global context -- The discursive context -- The local context -- Local expressions of indigenous knowledge -- Concluding remarks -- Epilogue -- References -- Appendix |