Andean Waterways

Author : Mattias Borg Rasmussen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295806082

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Andean Waterways by Mattias Borg Rasmussen Pdf

Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful ethnographic analysis of the constitution of waterways, illustrating how water becomes entangled in a variety of political, social, and cultural concerns. Set in the highland town of Recuay in Ancash, the book traces the ways in which water affects political and ecological relations as glaciers recede. By looking at the shared waterways of four villages located in the foothills of Cordillera Blanca, it addresses pertinent questions concerning water governance and rural lives. This case study of water politics will be useful to anthropologists, resource managers, environmental policy makers, and other readers who are interested in the effects of environmental change on rural communities. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiLZkIWNU4

Author : Karsten Paerregaard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520393929

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Andean Meltdown by Karsten Paerregaard Pdf

Andean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. A pathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans.

Author : Linda J. Seligmann,Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317220787

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The Andean World by Linda J. Seligmann,Kathleen S. Fine-Dare Pdf

This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Dan Smyer Yü,Jelle J.P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000868807

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Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic by Dan Smyer Yü,Jelle J.P. Wouters Pdf

This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world’s altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. Innovation-driven, the book offers multipolar clime case studies through the contributors’ historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse conceptualizations and applications of clime, an overlooked but returning notion of place embodied with climate history, pattern, and changes. The multipolar clime case studies in the book are geared toward deeper, lively explorations and demonstrations of the translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity between the notions of clime and climate. "Multipolar" or "multipolarity" in this book connotes not only the two polar regions and the tectonically shaped highlands of the earth but also diversely debated perspectives of climate studies in the broadest sense. Contributors across the twelve chapters come from diverse fields of social and natural sciences and humanities, and geographically specialize, respectively, in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic regions. The first comparative study of climate change in altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, this will be an important read for students, academics, and researchers in environmental humanities, anthropology, climate science, indigenous studies, and ecology.

Author : Thomas Harper Goodspeed
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plant Hunters in the Andes by Thomas Harper Goodspeed Pdf

Author : José Miguel Fariña,Andrés Camaño
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319638775

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The Ecology and Natural History of Chilean Saltmarshes by José Miguel Fariña,Andrés Camaño Pdf

This book consolidates the information, results, experience and perspectives of different research groups working on Chilean Saltmarshes. Some aspects of these ecosystems such as their bio-geographical connectivity, flora and faunal components, the interaction between ecosystem components and especially the response of this kind of ecosystems to human and natural perturbations defines the Chilean Saltmarshes as an attractive systems for future studies, focused into test the theoretical and experimental aspects of saltmarshes and general ecology.

Author : Victoria Reyes-García
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781003801313

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Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Victoria Reyes-García Pdf

This Handbook examines the diverse ways in which climate change impacts Indigenous Peoples and local communities and considers their response to these changes. While there is well-established evidence that the climate of the Earth is changing, the scarcity of instrumental data oftentimes challenges scientists’ ability to detect such impacts in remote and marginalized areas of the world or in areas with scarce data. Bridging this gap, this Handbook draws on field research among Indigenous Peoples and local communities distributed across different climatic zones and relying on different livelihood activities, to analyse their reports of and responses to climate change impacts. It includes contributions from a range of authors from different nationalities, disciplinary backgrounds, and positionalities, thus reflecting the diversity of approaches in the field. The Handbook is organised in two parts: Part I examines the diverse ways in which climate change – alone or in interaction with other drivers of environmental change – affects Indigenous Peoples and local communities; Part II examines how Indigenous Peoples and local communities are locally adapting their responses to these impacts. Overall, this book highlights Indigenous and local knowledge systems as an untapped resource which will be vital in deepening our understanding of the effects of climate change. The Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities will be an essential reference text for students and scholars of climate change, anthropology, environmental studies, ethnobiology, and Indigenous studies.

Author : Susan A. Crate,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000988932

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Anthropology and Climate Change by Susan A. Crate,Mark Nuttall Pdf

In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition’s pioneering focus on anthropology’s burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition’s focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists’ contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities, and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts – as scholars, educators, and practitioners from academic institutions to government bodies, international science agencies and foundations, working in interdisciplinary research teams and with community research partners. The contributions to this new edition showcase important new academic research, as well as applied and practicing approaches. They emphasize human agency in the archaeological record, the rapid development in the last decade of community-based and community-driven research and disaster research; provide rich ethnographic insight into worldmaking practices, interventions, and collaborations; and discuss how, and in what ways, anthropologists work in policy areas and engage with regional and global assessments. This new edition is essential for established scholars and for students in anthropology and a range of other disciplines, including environmental studies, as well as for practitioners who engage with anthropological studies of climate change in their work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Argentina
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051078293

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Miscellaneous Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark W. Hauser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748733

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Mapping Water in Dominica by Mark W. Hauser Pdf

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica’s colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : UIUC:30112109754652

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Miscellaneous Series ... by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Pdf

Author : L. Brewster Smith,Harry Thomas Collings,Elizabeth Murphey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Argentina
ISBN : HARVARD:LI5CJQ

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The Economic Position of Argentina During the War by L. Brewster Smith,Harry Thomas Collings,Elizabeth Murphey Pdf

Author : Mark Carey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195396072

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In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers by Mark Carey Pdf

Illustrating in detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century, this book's historical perspective illuminates the trends that would be ignored in scientific projections about future climate scenarios.

Author : Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226322810

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The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha by Susanna B. Hecht Pdf

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Da Cunha intended his epic to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, but, as Susanna B. Hecht recounts, he never completed it—his wife’s lover shot him dead upon his return. At once the biography of an extraordinary writer, a masterly chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, and a superb translation of the remaining pieces of da Cunha’s project, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters,Dan Smyer Yü
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040090534

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Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters by Jelle J.P. Wouters,Dan Smyer Yü Pdf

Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the book is expressed in what the editors characterize as the clime studies of the Himalayan multispecies worlds. Synonymous with place embodied with weather patterns and environmental history, clime is understood as both a recipient of and a contributor to climate change over time. Supported by empirical and historical findings, the chapters showcase climate change as clime change that concurrently entails multispecies encounters, multifaceted cultural processes, and ecologically specific environmental changes in the more-than-human worlds of the Himalayas. As the case studies complement, enrich, and converse with natural scientific understandings of Himalayan climate change, this book offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary field of climate studies and policy debates on climate change and sustainable development.