• The cultural context of biodiversity conservation : seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala
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    副題名: seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala
    作者: MaassPetra,
    其他團體作者: Project Muse
    出版地: [Akron, Ohio]
    出版者: University of Akron Press;
    出版年: 2010
    版本: North American ed.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (283 p.)ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). :
    集叢名: Göttinger Beitröge zur Ethnologie
    標題: Landscape assessment - Guatemala -
    標題: Ethnology - Guatemala -
    標題: Protected areas - Guatemala -
    標題: Human ecology - Guatemala -
    標題: Kekchi Indians - Science - Guatemala -
    標題: Kekchi Indians - Guatemala -
    標題: Traditional ecological knowledge - Guatemala -
    標題: Biodiversity conservation - Social aspects - Guatemala -
    電子資源: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781935603344/
    附註: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    摘要註: 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
    內容註: Introduction -- The global context -- The discursive context -- The local context -- Local expressions of indigenous knowledge -- Concluding remarks -- Epilogue -- References -- Appendix
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