Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Collection of EssaysRobert Earle Johannes IUCN, 1989 - 77 páginas |
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Aborigines African agricultural system Amazon animal behaviour anthropologists areas arrow poison Barrau biologists Blurton Jones burning Caledonia chemical conservation corms crops culture curare described Doumenge environment ethnobotanical ethologists European example farmers fire fish fisheries fishermen forest fruit gemsbok grasses grow growth Guiart habitat harvest hunter-gatherer hunters hunting important Indians indigenous intercropping Inuit irrigation Jacques Johannes Kanak Konner kudu labour Lambert land Leafl Leenhardt 1930 Legand lions marine meadows Mélanésiennes Metais metres Mogbuama native natural resources Noumea Nouvelle Calédonie observation Pacific Island Palauan population practices production rainfall resource management rice cultivation rice farming Schultes scientists season Sierra Leone soil sources South Pacific Commission spawning aggregations species swamp cultivation taro taro patch techniques tracks traditional ecological knowledge traditional knowledge traditional societies tree gardens tribe tropical tubers upland varieties Vaupés vegetation Vochysia wallabies Western yaka yams Yapese
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Página 33 - Christian padre has supplanted the pagan paye", who has besides been discountenanced and persecuted by the civil authorities ; so that if any now exist, he must exercise his office in secret. With the native and still unchristianised tribes I have for the most part held only passing intercourse during some of my voyages.
Página 5 - Partly as a result of this intensified interest in plant domestication and detailed knowledge of minute differences in vegetative structures, Hanuno'o plant categories outnumber, by more than 400 types, the taxonomic species into which the same local flora is grouped by systematic botanists (Conklin, 1954).
Página 31 - The tragedy is that the Indian is one of the main keys to the successful occupation of the Amazon, and as he disappears his vast knowledge is going with him.
Página 28 - Such an intellective process is familiar to us from detective stories and indeed also from science itself. Evidently it is a basic feature of human mental life. It would be surprising indeed if repeated activation of hypotheses, trying them out against new data, integrating them with previously known facts, and rejecting ones which do not stand up, were habits of mind peculiar to western scientists and detectives. IKung behavior indicates that, on the contrary, the very way of life for which the...
Página 31 - Since Amazonian Indians are often the only ones who know both the properties of these plants and how they can best be utilized, their knowledge must be considered an essential component of all efforts to conserve and develop the Amazon.
Página 33 - I congratulated myself on so fine a chance of getting to know some of the secrets of his "medicine." He did not reach the port until 10 PM, and when he learnt that there was a white paye (meaning myself) in the village, he and his attendants immediately threw back into the canoe his goods, which they had begun to disembark, and resumed their dangerous voyage down the river in the night-time.
Página 22 - ... the IKung appear to know a good deal more about many subjects than do the scientists.
Página 37 - Ethnopharmacology has recently been defined as the "observation, identification, description and experimental investigation of the ingredients and the effects of indigenous drugs".
Página 57 - Traditional environmental management in New Caledonia: a review of existing knowledge", SPREP Topic Review 18, South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia, 1985.
Página 7 - Vayda 1986) are as ideologically committing as the polarisation between proponents of traditional 'environmental wisdom' and those writers who 'now dwell singlemindedly on examples of bad natural resource management among traditional peoples, advancing the opposing notion that traditional environmental practices were basically unsound
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