The cultural context of biodiversity conservation : seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala /

The cultural context of biodiversity conservation : seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala /

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Author / Creator:Maass, Petra.
Edition:North American ed.
Imprint:[Akron, Ohio] : University of Akron Press, 2010
Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (283 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), digital file
Language:English
Series:Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie ; v. 2.
Subject:
Landscape assessment -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Ethnology -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Protected areas -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Human ecology -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Kekchi Indians -- Science -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Biodiversity conservation -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Biodiversity conservation -- Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Human ecology.
Kekchi Indians.
Landscape assessment.
Protected areas.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135550
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ISBN:9781935603344
1935603345
9781935603351
1935603353
9781931968805
1931968802
Notes:Previously published: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-280).
Print version record.
Summary:How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.
Other form:Print version: 1931968802 9781931968805

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