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03611aam a2200433 a 4500 001 166411CA1D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140806010537 008 121106s2013 aluab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012042396 020 $a 0817317864 (trade cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780817317867 (trade cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)818293386 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d YUS $d FDA $d YAM $d VLR $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a sa----- 050 00 $a F2520.1.U7 $b B33 2013 082 00 $a 581.6/309811 $2 23 100 1 $a BaleÌe, William L., $d 1954- 245 10 $a Cultural forests of the Amazon : $b a historical ecology of people and their landscapes / $c William BaleÌe. 260 $a Tuscaloosa : $b University of Alabama Press, $c c2013. 300 $a xv, 268 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-[248]) and index. 505 0 $a Villages of vines and trees -- An estimate of the anthropogenesis -- Comparison of high and fallow forests -- People of the fallow forest -- Vanishing plant names -- Conquest and migration -- From their point of view -- Retention of traditional knowledge -- Confection, inflection -- Discernment of environmental variation -- Rethinking the landscape -- Appendix 1. GuajaÌ generic plant names -- Appendix 2. Trees of the anthropogenic forest. 520 $a "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. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William BaleÌe's research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon, he argues that indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years. BaleÌe demonstrates the inestimable value of indigenous knowledge in providing guideposts for a potentially less destructive future for environments and biota in the Amazon. He shows that we can no longer think about species and landscape diversity in any tropical forest without taking into account the intricacies of human history and the impact of all forms of knowledge and technology. BaleÌe describes the development of his historical ecology approach in Amazonia, along with important material on little-known forest dwellers and their habitats, current thinking in Amazonian historical ecology, and a narrative of his own dialogue with the Amazon and its people."--book jacket. 650 0 $a Urubu Kaapor Indians $x Ethnobotany. 650 0 $a Urubu Kaapor Indians $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Urubu Kaapor Indians $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $x Ecology $z Amazon River Region. 650 0 $a Traditional ecological knowledge $z Amazon River Region. 650 0 $a Cultural landscapes $z Amazon River Region. 650 0 $a Rain forest ecology $z Amazon River Region. 651 0 $a Amazon River Region $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Amazon River Region $x Environmental conditions. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214022119.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826080415.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331010951.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=166411CA1D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search