Plants Man And The Land In The Vilcanota Valley Of Peru

Author : D.W. Gade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401019613

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Plants, Man and the Land in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru by D.W. Gade Pdf

Man's symbiosis with plants is the most fundamental material fact of human life on the earth. Geographers, as well as botanists, anthropologists and other scientists, have long been interested in this aspect of the man-nature theme. In American geography, CARL O. SAUER emphasized a temporal as well as spatial perspective in the cultural understanding of man's relationship to biological phe nomena. His researches and those of his associates in the 'Berkeley school' showed that the most fruitful possibilities for implementing this approach are in non industrial societies which have direct and pervasive links between plants and man (GADE, 1975). The study that follows is a geography of plant resources in an important Andean valley having great environmental diversity and a cultural con stant, in so far as a non-literate, Quechua-speaking peasantry dominates through out the zone. My basic objective has been to understand the present use of plants, cultivated and wild, as they have varied from place to place and through time. Primary and secondary documents and local informants were important sources of historical information. Most of the contemporary data in this study were derived from over 20 months of empirical observations of the day-to-day existence of farming folk in their fields, homes and markets. The great natural beauty of the Vilcanota depression is matched only by the stark poverty which has been the lot of the majority of people who live there.

Author : Daniel W. Gade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319208497

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Spell of the Urubamba by Daniel W. Gade Pdf

This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path northward from the Andean Highlands to the Amazon, the valley has served as the stage of pre-Columbian civilizations and focal point of Spanish conquest in Peru. "Gade left behind not only a superb body of scholarly work, but a network of colleagues and students who remain indebted to his example. This book should serve as an inspiration for all scholars who wish to pursue the Sauerian, counter enlightenment or post development agendas of understanding and respecting particular places in all their historical and cultural complexity, including ambiguities and contradictions." -- The Geographical Review, American Geographical Society

Author : Eva M. Spehn,Maximo Liberman,Christian Korner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781420002874

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Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity by Eva M. Spehn,Maximo Liberman,Christian Korner Pdf

Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota. GMBA's focus includes the uppermost forest regions or their substitute rangeland vegetation, the treeline ecotone, and the alpine and nival belts. Providing more than description, the GM

Author : Daniel W. Gade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89010884021

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Plant Use and Folk Agriculture in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru by Daniel W. Gade Pdf

Author : Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins,Kent Mathewson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030424800

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Forest, Field, and Fallow by Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins,Kent Mathewson Pdf

This volume aims to present the essential work of geographer and historical ecologist William M. Denevan to explain the impact and influence his thinking had on the conceptual advancement not only in his own discipline, but in a range of related disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, and environmental history. The book is organized around eight themes, demonstrating Denevan’s early and profound insights on topics that remain of current relevance today, and the scholarly impact his writing had on subsequent scholarship. The book is unique because it offers commentary from active scholars who address the impacts of Prof. Denevan's thinking and work on contemporary environmental and ecological issues, with a focus on several groundbreaking themes (e.g. historical demography, agricultural landforms, cultural plant geography, human environmental impacts, indigenous agro-ecology, tropical agriculture, livestock and landscape, and synthetic contributions). This book will be of interest to a range of scholars in geography, anthropology, archaeology, history, and ecology, as well as to environmental managers and practitioners, especially those working for non-profit organizations and government organizations tasked with finding ways to adapt to global environmental change.

Author : Thomas A. Rumney
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780810886353

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The Geography of South America by Thomas A. Rumney Pdf

South America is an area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, and its land and people have played important roles in the discovery and distribution of civilizations, resources, and nations for millennia. The region has long stimulated a large amount of research across the many subdisciplines of geography, and Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many scholarly publications as possible in The Geography of South America: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography. Every South American nation is included: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Beginning with an overview of the region as a whole, successive chapters, one per nation, are divided by specific subdisciplines of geography: cultural, social, economic, historical, physical and environmental, political, and urban. Each section is then divided by document type: atlases, books, book chapters, articles from scholarly journals, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations. Although the majority of entries focus on English-language works, selected entries written in Spanish, French, German, and other languages are also included (with the entry titles translated into English and noted accordingly).

Author : Christopher Isett,Stephen Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442209688

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The Social History of Agriculture by Christopher Isett,Stephen Miller Pdf

This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make.

Author : Lei Guang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351960137

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Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific by Lei Guang Pdf

Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by industry or commerce, yet the seeds of global integration - literally as well as metaphorically - were sown much earlier, when crops and plants dispersed, agricultural systems proliferated, and rural people migrated across oceans. One goal of this volume is to demonstrate that the historical processes of globalization contained an agrarian dimension in which sub-national and national spaces were shaped in part through the influence of forces that originated in distant lands. Social and economic trends emanating from outside local territories had large impacts on demographic change, choices of agrarian systems, and the cropping patterns in many domestic settings. A second goal is to encourage readers to abandon the traditional Euro-centric view of events that shaped the Pacific region. The modern history of the Pacific World was undoubtedly shaped by Western imperialism, colonialism, and European trade and migration, but the present volume seeks to balance the interpretation of those forces with an emphasis on the increasing intensity of trans-Pacific interactions through rural labor migration and agricultural production.

Author : Gregory Knapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429714948

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Andean Ecology by Gregory Knapp Pdf

This book describes and analyzes the adaptive strategies of traditional and prehistoric farmers in one part of the Andes, in an effort to understand the varying interactions between people and their habitat over the last five hundred years.

Author : Jules Janick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118061138

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Plant Breeding Reviews by Jules Janick Pdf

Plant Breeding Reviews is an ongoing series presenting state-of-the art review articles on research in plant genetics, especially the breeding of commercially important crops. Articles perform the valuable function of collecting, comparing, and contrasting the primary journal literature in order to form an overview of the topic. This detailed analysis bridges the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of plant scientists.

Author : H. David Thurston
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000313734

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Sustainable Practices For Plant Disease Management In Traditional Farming Systems by H. David Thurston Pdf

Most scientists and many of the world's farmers have abandoned traditional farming practices and systems in an effort to increase production and to improve the efficiency of land and labor use. The resulting "modern" systems largely ignore many of the sustainable pest management practices that have evolved among farmers over centuries. In this book

Author : Karl S. Zimmerer,Kenneth R. Young
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0299159140

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Nature's Geography by Karl S. Zimmerer,Kenneth R. Young Pdf

Developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are increasingly influenced by human-induced environmental changes. It is crucial that sustainable development be based on insights into these expanding processes--conservation as well as deterioration. Nature's Geography offers a new perspective on the geographical nature of these changes. The book reveals how human-environment relations must be understood at multiple scales and time frames. Editors Karl S. Zimmerer and Kenneth R. Young have forged an exciting group of case studies from distinguished geographers focusing on high mountains, tropical forests, and lowlands, as well as humid and arid-semiarid landscapes. Each chapter analyzes the implications for meshing environmental protection and sound resource use with development. The case studies evaluate three topics: spatial habitat fragmentation and forest dynamics; disturbances in mountain ecosystems; and the major activities of settled areas, chiefly farming, livestock-raising, and forestry. Included are analyses of interactions involving wildlife, such as primates and wild pandas; assessment of fire impacts and road-building; long-term forest management as well as recent techniques; and the role of environmental variation and ecosystem properties in agriculture and rangeland. Nature's Geography demonstrates the vital importance of advancing a new approach to geography. This definitive study of landscape change and environmental dynamics will have wide appeal for those interested in geography, ecology, environmental studies, conservation biology, and development studies.

Author : Charles Bixler Heiser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 0806124105

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Of Plants and People by Charles Bixler Heiser Pdf

What are the origins of agriculture? How did people learn to domesticate plants? How did they come to improve some? How did they learn special techniques for processing certain plants for food? In these highly personal and informal essays-old-fashioned botany, the author calls them-noted botanist Charles Heiser investigates those and other questions raised by the interactions of plants and people. His purpose is to try to find the origins of some of our domesticated plants and to consider other plants that might someday contribute to our food resources. In Of Plants and People, Heiser examines the origins of pumpkins, squashes, and other cucurbits. In The Totora and Thor, he digresses from food plants to trace the spread of the totora reed from South America to Pacific islands. Little Oranges of Quito is about the domestication of a wild plant, the naranjilla, that is going on today. Chenopods: From Weeds to the Halls of Montezuma concerns the uses of the Andean quinua and its relatives, and Sangorache and the Day of the Dead, A Trip to Tulcán, and Chochos and Other Lupines all examine Latin-American domestic plants that could contribute to our own foods. Green ‘Tomatoes’ and Purple 'Cucumbers, the tomate and the pepino, respectively, describes two other crops that have received scant notice in the United States. The subject of "How Many Kinds of Peppers Are There?" is the genus Capsicum, with its sweet green and hot red peppers and all their related species and varieties. Heiser again writes about nonfood plants in the essay "Peperomias," but in the next chapter, "Sumpweed," he discusses a plant that was once used for food but that has been neglected in favor of others. And in "A Plague of Locusts" the author compares the honey locust tree with a close relative to try to determine what gives particular plants advantages in certain environments. In his final essay, Seeds, Sex, and Sacrifice, Heiser relates myth, anthropological evidence, and botanical findings to review the connection between religion and the origin of agriculture. The audience for this book will include botanists, horticulturists, anthropologists, and any reader interested in the interrelationships between plants and people.

Author : Heath J. Carney,International Potato Center. Social Science Department
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Potatoes
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Diversity, distribution and peasant selection of indigenous potato varieties in the Mantaro Valley, Peru: a biocultural evolutionary process. by Heath J. Carney,International Potato Center. Social Science Department Pdf

Author : IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Working Session
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 2880324084

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Conserving the natural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean by IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Working Session Pdf