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Author : Janette Forte
Publisher : Amerindian Research Unit University of Guyana
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006275334
Author : Santosh C. Saha
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0739110853
The existing traditions of inquiry into ethnic conflict can be classified into four categories: essentialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institutionalism. All four traditions have a distinguished lineage, but none can really account for the worldwide spread of ethnic violence. We need to move from the local to the macro or global. This book, using methodology from sociology, history, and politics, will present the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of linguistics, religion, territory, and tribes in various regions. These brilliant essays look at some of the most conflicted sites in the world, where ethnic violence has been created and played out: Burma, Indonesia, Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, the Sudan, Mexico, and Guyana. Divided into two parts, Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict is a rich text for scholars of conflict studies, focusing on the sources and dynamics of ethnic violence and providing descriptions of ethnic conflict across the globe.
Author : D. S. Hammond
Publisher : CABI
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1845930924
The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.
Author : Kimberley Hockings,Robin Dunbar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198842460
Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a 'social problem' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a 'hedonic' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To understand alcohol use, as a complex social practice that has been exploited by humans for thousands of years, requires cross-disciplinary insight from social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, psychologists, primatologists, and biologists. This multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding. Alcohol abuse is a small part of a much more complex and social pattern of widespread alcohol use by humans. This alone should prompt us to explore the evolutionary origins of this ancient practice and the socially functional reasons for its continued popularity. The objectives of this volume are: (1) to understand how and why nonhuman primates and other animals use alcohol in the wild, and its relevance to understanding the social consumption of alcohol in humans; (2) to understand the social function of alcohol in human prehistory; (3) to understand the sociocultural significance of alcohol across human societies; and (4) to explore the social functions of alcohol consumption in contemporary society. 'Alcohol in Humans' will be fascinating reading for those in the fields of biology, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, as well as those with a broader interest in addiction.
Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780244043742
This landmark monograph in ethnoecology is now available in print format for the first time. Based on long-term fieldwork in Guyana during 1998, 1999 and 2000, it examines relationships between the ecological knowledge of Wapishana hunters and equivalent areas of ecological science. It places this in the ethnographic context of Wapishana settlement, subsistence and symbolism, and the wider context of the political ecology of Guyanas economic liberalisation and the consequent exposure of the indigenous peoples of Guyanas Rupununi region to extractive industries and international conservation interests for the first time. The result is a robust argument, grounded in extensive data and analysis, for alternative trajectories in conservation and international development rooted in the skills, knowledge and interests of indigenous users and custodians of biodiversity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172117556028
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172138374754
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Guyana
ISBN : UCLA:L0074937442
Author : Benson Latin American Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UOM:39015079750231
Author : Shawn M. Lehman,John G Fleagle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387317106
Primate Biogeography is a subject rarely addressed as a discipline in its own right. This comprehensive source introduces the reader to Primate Biogeography as a discipline. It highlights the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates, and reveals the wide range of approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order. The biogeography of primates in the past is a major component of our understanding of their evolutionary history and is an essential component of conservation biology. This book will appeal to primatologists, physical anthropologists, zoologists, and undergraduates in these areas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951P00201779T
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015082911291
Author : Thomas M. Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1901 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135205089
A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Encyclopedia of the Developing World is a comprehensive work on the historical and current status of developing countries. Containing more than 750 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses primarily the years since 1945 and defines development broadly, addressing not only economics but also civil society and social progress. Entries cover the most important theories and measurements of development; relate historical events, movements, and concepts to development both internationally and regionally where applicable; examine the contributions of the most important persons and organizations; and detail the progress made within geographic regions and by individual countries.
Author : Nigel Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319055091
This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of many landscapes in Amazonia, and they are important culturally, economically, and for a variety of ecological roles they play. Humans have been reorganizing the biological furniture in the region since the first hunters and gatherers arrived over 20,000 years ago.
Author : Walter Leal Filho,Victor T. King,Ismar Borges de Lima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030291532
This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century. The many problems are described and the benefits, as well as the achievements of regional development are also discussed. The book focuses on three themes for discussion and recommendations: indigenous peoples, their home (the forest), and the way(s) to protect and sustain their natural home (biodiversity conservation). Using these three themes this volume offers a comprehensive critical review of the facts that have been the reality of Amazonia and fills a gap in the literature.The book will appeal to scholars, professors and practitioners. An outstanding group of experienced researchers and individuals with detailed knowledge of the proposed themes have produced chapters on an array of inter-related issues to demonstrate the current situation and future prospects of Amazonia. Issues investigated and debated include: territorial management; indigenous territoriality and land demarcation; ethnodevelopment; indigenous higher education and capacity building; natural resource appropriation; food security and traditional knowledge; megadevelopmental projects; indigenous acculturation; modernization of Amazonia and its regional integration; anthropogenic interventions; protected areas and conservation; political ecology; postcolonial issues, and the sustainability of Amazonia.
