Trekking Through History
«Rival's fascinating ethnography demonstrates that ecological adaptation cannot be understood as resource extraction alone, it is deeply embedded in Huaorani identity, sociality, symbolism, and historicity... Rival's work represents an important contribution to this developing approach. -- Loretta Cormier Journal of Ethnobiology A superb job in addressing issues of native historicity. -- Michael A. Uzendoski Latin American Research Review [Rival's] rich ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion provide key arguments and materials to re-think further Amazonian people's relationships to the environment. -- Luisa Elvira Belaunde, University of St Andrews Royal Anthropological Institute»
The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as "Ecuador's last savages. Les mer
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Through her detailed comparative discussion of native Amazonian representations of history and the environment, Rival illustrates the unique way the Huaorani have socialized nature by choosing to depend on resources created in the past-highlighting the unique contribution anthropology makes to the study of environmental history.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231118446
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«Rival's fascinating ethnography demonstrates that ecological adaptation cannot be understood as resource extraction alone, it is deeply embedded in Huaorani identity, sociality, symbolism, and historicity... Rival's work represents an important contribution to this developing approach. -- Loretta Cormier Journal of Ethnobiology A superb job in addressing issues of native historicity. -- Michael A. Uzendoski Latin American Research Review [Rival's] rich ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion provide key arguments and materials to re-think further Amazonian people's relationships to the environment. -- Luisa Elvira Belaunde, University of St Andrews Royal Anthropological Institute»