William balee (95 Ergebnisse)

1994. South America, Botany, ethnobotany, Native Americans. Columbia University Press. 396p., very good - fine paperback.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 441 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Damage to top of spine. Slightly creased spine. William Nicholson (Cover Painting); Stacey May (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light wear to edges, small crease to front cover at top right. Some superficial scuffing to covers. Interior clean and unmarked.

1991. Journals, South America, Native Americans, Botany. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological sciences volume 35, no. 3 209 - 262p. Very good stapled paperback.

Zustand: new.

Paper Back. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st. 396pp.incl.index; SC green w/white&orange-photocover; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. ".this book documents how the Ka'apor use, manage, name, and classify hundreds of plant species found in their habitat." some illus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1998. Natural History, ecology, Anthropological Theory. Columbia University Press. 429p. very good - near fine boards and very good to good+ dust jacket, with slight scuffing to black fields on dj. 9/25.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780231074858.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 268 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. pp. 268.

Hardback. Zustand: New. Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests William BalÉe is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin. His new collection, Sowing the Forest, is a companion volume to the award-winning Cultural Forests of the Amazon, published in 2013. Sowing the Forest engages in depth with how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests, making the landscapes of palm forests and other kinds of forests, and how these and related forests have fed back into the vocabulary and behavior of current indigenous occupants of the remotest parts of the vast hinterlands. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Substrate of Intentionality," comprises chapters on historical ecology, indigenous palm forests, plant names in Amazonia, the origins of the Amazonian plantain, and the unknown "Dark Earth people" of thousands of years ago and their landscaping. Together these chapters illustrate the phenomenon of feedback between culture and environment. In part 2, "Scope of Transformation," BalÉe lays out his theory of landscape transformation, which he divides into two rubrics-primary landscape transformation and secondary landscape transformation-and for which he provides examples and various specific effects. One chapter compares environmental and social interrelationships in an Orang Asli group in Malaysia and the Ka'apor people of eastern Amazonian Brazil, and another chapter covers loss of language and culture in the Bolivian Amazon. A final chapter addresses the controversial topic of monumentality in the rainforest. BalÉe concludes by emphasizing the common thread in Amazonian historical ecology: the long-term phenomenon of encouraging diversity for its own sake, not just for economic reasons.…

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Zustand: New. Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440. . 2015. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:0231106327.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Footprints of the Forest is the clearest and most comprehensive account to date of the relationship between an Amazonian people and their botanical environment. Based on Balee's ten years of ethnological and botanical research among the Tupi-Guarani-speaking Indians, especially the Ka'apor, of eastern Amazonia, this book documents the ways in which the Ka'apor use, manage, name, and classify many hundreds of plant species found in their habitat. From a historical and ecological perspective, Balee shows that Ka'apor ethnobotany represents an interpenetration of Amazonian culture and nature and thus constitutes a domain of scientific inquiry in its own right. The substantive chapters explore the history of the Ka'apor and their present modes of land use, the Ka'apor's influence on the composition of fragile forests in their habitat, and Ka'apor forest management practices. Balee also discusses the nomenclature and classification of indigenous plants as well as the cognitive aspects of magical, medicinal, and poisonous plants.Footprints of the Forest concludes with an explanatory framework for understanding the similarities and differences among the ethnobotanical systems of diverse Amazonian peoples and ten cross-referenced appendices, which will aid those readers interested in specific Amazonian plants and their native names, habitats, and exact uses by the Ka'apor. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Columbia University Press, 2005, reprint3. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xiv,417pp, illust. A good copy. 9780231135627/0.7us.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:0231074840. …

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:9780231074841.…

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Zustand: New. 2023. Hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents Foreword/Carole L. Crumley. Preface. Introduction/William Balee. I. Human and material factors in historical ecology 1. Historical ecology premises and postulates/William Balee. 2. Ecological history and historical ecology diachronic modeling versus historical explanation/Neil L. Whitehead. 3. A historical ecological perspective on epidemic disease/Linda A. Newson. 4. Forged in fire history land and anthropogenic fire/Stephen J. Pyne. 5. Diachronic ecotones and anthropogenic landscapes in Amazonia contesting the consciousness of conservation/Darrell A. Posey. 6. Metaphor and metamorphism some thoughts on environmental metahistory/Elizabeth Graham. II. Regional research landscape analyses in historical ecology 7. The rat that Ate Louisiana aspects of historical ecology in the Mississippi river Delta/Tristram R. Kidder. 8. Cultural human and historical ecology in the Great Basin fifty years of ideas about ten thousand years of prehistory/Robert L. Bettinger. 9. Ancient and modern hunter Gatherers of Lowland South America an evolutionary problem/Anna C. Rossevelt. 10. Potential versus actual vegetation human behavior in a landscape medium/Ted Gragson. 11. Domestication as a historical and symbolic process wild gardens and cultivated forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon/Laura Rival. 12. Independent yet interdependent Isode the historical ecology of traditional Piaroa settlement pattern/Stanford Zent. 13. Whatever happened to the stone age. Steel tools and Yanomami historical ecology/R. Brian Ferguson. 14. Missionary activity and Indian Labour in the Upper Rio Negro of Brazil 1680 1980 a historical ecological approach/Janet M. Chernela. 15. Cultural persistence and environmental change the Otomi of the valle del Mezquital Mexico/Elinor G.K. Melville. 16. The great cow explosion in Rajasthan/Carol Henderson. 17. The historical ecology of Thailand increasing thresholds of human environmental impact from prehistory to the present/Leslie E. Sponsel. Epilogue. Notes on the contributors. Index. The study of ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationships between the living and nonliving elements of the earth. For years however the discipline has either neglected the human element entirely or presumed that its effect on natural ecosystems is invariably negative. However social scientists in geography an anthropology have criticized efforts to address this human environment interaction as deterministic and mechanistic. Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences the contributors to this book use a more holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short and long term local and global change eighteen specialists in anthropology geography history ethnobiology and related disciplines present new perspectives on historical ecology. The authors present a broad theoretical background of the material factors central to the field such as anthropogenic fire soils and pathogens. This knowledge applied to a series of regions is used to investigate landscape transformations over time in South America the Mississippi Delta the Great Basin Thailand and India. The contributors focus on traditional societies where lands are most at risk from the incursions of complex state level societies. The book lays the groundwork for a more meaningful understanding of humankind's interaction with its biosphere. Scholars and environmental policymakers alike will appreciate this new critical vocabulary for biocultural phenomena. 429 pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 233 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.