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, 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 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...