" The editors] have brought together many of the most innovative
thinkers and field workers to ponder how local communities make
sense of the landscapes in which they live, and upon which they
depend. This volume is rich with insights about how cultures
perceive the spaces, landforms and habitats which nourish them." .
Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., author, Singing the Turtles to Sea and
Cultures of Habitat
"This landmark volume is bound to become a theoretical
touchstone and wellspring for assessing the unity and diversity of
human conceptualizations of landscape. It deftly combines a
rigorous review of cross-cultural theories of landscape perception
and classification with richly-detailed ethnographic examples of
landscape ethnoecology." . Thomas F. Thornton, School of Geography
and Environment, University of Oxford
Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored
"place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of
"kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an
ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local
understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better
understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and
aquatic resources. The contributors go beyond the traditional
ecological knowledge (TEK) literature and offer valuable insights
on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the
perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk
classification. Focusing on the ways traditional people perceive
and manage land and biotic resources within diverse regional and
cultural settings, the contributors address theoretical issues and
present case studies from North America, Mexico, Amazonia, tropical
Asia, Africa and Europe.
Leslie Main Johnson is Associate Professor in the Centre for
Work and Community Studies and the Centre for Integrated Studies,
Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. Her publications include
Trails of Story, Traveller's Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and
Landscape (Athabasca University Press, 2009) and articles in Human
Ecology, Journal of Ethnobiology, Ecology of Food and Nutrition,
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, and Botany.
Eugene S. Hunn is Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books
include Tzeltal Folk Zoology: The Classification of Discontinuities
in Nature (Academic Press, 1977), Resource Managers: North American
and Australian Hunter-Gatherers, co-edited with N. M. Williams
(Westview, 1981), Nch'i-Wana, 'The Big River' Mid-Columbia Indians
and their Land (University of Washington Press, 1990), and A
Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts,
and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbee (University of Arizona Press,
2008)."
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