Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. KayapO Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the KayapO Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the KayapO sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the KayapO are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for...
Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. KayapO Ethnoecology and Culture present...
Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, this book asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment. To Western eyes, the farming and foraging practices of the Wola New Guinea highlanders seem counter-productive. Attitudes to hunting are puzzling in their tolerance of low returns, while zoological taxonomies appear fractious and slippery. Closer inspection of Wola practices, however, enables a greater understanding of their underlying...
Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, this book asks how natural ...
Development agencies have for years been seeking a successful universal response to deprivation. Sparked by controversy and debate, the most recent trend is to look for solutions among 'local' or 'indigenous' populations. Nevertheless, resources continue to be wasted in ill-conceived, centrally-imposed schemes that have not only failed to improve matters in lesser-developed countries but have often made them worse. In such instances it is not local knowledge that is problematic, but development agencies' total misinterpretation of it as just one more 'approach' that can be applied...
Development agencies have for years been seeking a successful universal response to deprivation. Sparked by controversy and debate, the most recent tr...
This unusual and richly illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. Based on fieldwork carried out over a period of some fifteen years, it aims for a total view of how a human community interacts with another zoological class, giving birds a chosen place in human ideas and social practice. As well as a fascinating ornithological study of Indonesian bird life, Nage Birds offers a much-needed critique of current theoretical argument on how non-western societies categorize and evaluate different...
This unusual and richly illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which t...
Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapo people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the Declaration of Belem: the first instance of an international scientific organisation recognizing an obligation to compensate native peoples for use of their knowledge and biological resources. In 1993, Posey received the United Nations Global 500 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service to the...
Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for h...
Bringing together twenty-five years of research, this study focuses on ethnographic descriptions of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, but includes a wealth of comparative material from others.
Bringing together twenty-five years of research, this study focuses on ethnographic descriptions of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the penin...
Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how indigenous peoples make claims that their own forms of resource management not only have relevance in an Arctic regional context, but provide models for the inclusion of indigenous values and environmental knowledge in the design, negotiation and implementation of global environmental...
Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and su...
This book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the Indonesian state.
This book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to ...
The first concerted examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge, this book explores the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resources.
The first concerted examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge, this book explores the problems of translation and mistranslation in...
Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. KayapO Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the KayapO Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the KayapO sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the KayapO are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for...
Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. KayapO Ethnoecology and Culture present...
