Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes
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Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes
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Author : William M. Denevan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes written by William M. Denevan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Agriculture categories.
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in difficult environments--rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts.
Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes
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Author : William M. Denevan
language : en
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Release Date : 2001
Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes written by William M. Denevan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Agriculture categories.
Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes
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Author : William M. Denevan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Cultivated Landscapes Of Native Amazonia And The Andes written by William M. Denevan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Agriculture categories.
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in difficult environments--rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts.
Landscapes Of Inequity
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Author : Nicholas A. Robins
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-07
Landscapes Of Inequity written by Nicholas A. Robins and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07 with History categories.
The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development schemes, including hydroelectric dams, open cast mines, and industrial agricultural operations. The history of human habitation in this region is intimately tied to its rich biodiversity, and the Amazon basin is home to scores of indigenous groups, many of whom have populations so small that their cultural and physical survival is endangered. Landscapes of Inequity explores the debate over rights to and use of resources and addresses fundamental questions that inform the debate in the western Amazon basin, from the Andes Mountains to the tropical lowlands. Beginning with an examination of the divergent conceptual interpretations of environmental justice, the volume explores the issue from two interlocking perspectives: of indigenous peoples and of economic development in a global economy. The volume concludes by examining the efficacy of laws and policies concerning the environment in the region, the viability and range of judicial recourse, and future directions in the field of environmental justice.
Rethinking The Andes Amazonia Divide
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Author : Adrian J. Pearce
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2020-10-21
Rethinking The Andes Amazonia Divide written by Adrian J. Pearce and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-21 with History categories.
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).
Agricultural And Settlement Frontiers In The Tropical Andes
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Author : María Fernanda López Sandoval
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Agricultural And Settlement Frontiers In The Tropical Andes written by María Fernanda López Sandoval and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Agricultural geography categories.
Forest Field And Fallow
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Author : Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Forest Field And Fallow written by Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
Andean Expressions
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Author : George F. Lau
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2011-04-16
Andean Expressions written by George F. Lau and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-16 with Social Science categories.
Flourishing from A.D. 1 to 700, the Recuay inhabited lands in northern Peru just below the imposing glaciers of the highest mountain chain in the tropics. Thriving on an economy of high-altitude crops and camelid herding, they left behind finely made artworks and grand palatial buildings with an unprecedented aesthetic and a high degree of technical sophistication. In this first in-depth study of these peoples, George Lau situates the Recuay within the great diversification of cultural styles associated with the Early Intermediate Period, provides new and significant evidence to evaluate models of social complexity, and offers fresh theories about life, settlement, art, and cosmology in the high Andes. Lau crafts a nuanced social and historical model in order to evaluate the record of Recuay developments as part of a wider Andean prehistory. He analyzes the rise and decline of Recuay groups as well as their special interactions with the Andean landscape. Their coherence was expressed as shared culture, community, and corporate identity, but Lau also reveals its diversity through time and space in order to challenge the monolithic characterizations of Recuay society pervasive in the literature today. Many of the innovations in Recuay culture, revealed for the first time in this landmark volume, left a lasting impact on Andean history and continue to have relevance today. The author highlights the ways that material things intervened in ancient social and political life, rather than being merely passive reflections of historical change, to show that Recuay public art, exchange, technological innovations, warfare, and religion offer key insights into the emergence of social hierarchy and chiefly leadership and the formation, interaction, and later dissolution of large discrete polities. By presenting Recuay artifacts as fundamentally social in the sense of creating and negotiating relations among persons, places, and things, he recognizes in the complexities of the past an enduring order and intelligence that shape the contours of history.
Geography In America At The Dawn Of The 21st Century
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Author : Gary L. Gaile
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-02-05
Geography In America At The Dawn Of The 21st Century written by Gary L. Gaile and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-05 with Science categories.
Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography. As such, it is both a 'state of the discipline' assessment and a topical reference. It includes an introduction by the editors and 48 chapters, each on a specific specialty. The authors of each chapter were chosen by their specialty group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Based on a process of review and revision, the chapters in this volume have become truly representative of the recent scholarship of American geographers. While it focuses on work since 1990, it additionally includes related prior work and work by non-American geographers. Includes a foreword by the eminent geographer Gilbert White.
The Physical Geography Of South America
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Author : Thomas T. Veblen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-01
The Physical Geography Of South America written by Thomas T. Veblen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with categories.
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Ni?o events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.