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Berghahn Books Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives 2009 Edition by Miguel N. Alexiades
Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts, different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes, as well as the incorporation and transformation of environmental knowledge, practices, ideologies and identities. Table of contents :- List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsEditor's PrefaceChapter 1. Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives - an IntroductionMiguel N. AlexiadesPART I: CIRCULATIONS: MOBILITY, SUBSISTENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENTChapter 2. Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming PlantsLaura RivalChapter 3. The Restless Life of the Nahua: Shaping People and Places in the Peruvian AmazonConrad FeatherChapter 4. Urban, Rural and In-between: Multi-Sited Households Mobility and Resource Management in the Amazon Flood PlainMiguel Pinedo-Vasquez and Christine PadochChapter 5. Unpicking 'Community' in Community Conservation: Implications of Changing Settlement Patterns and Individual Mobility for the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve, PeruHelen NewingPART II: TRANSFORMATIONS: KNOWLEDGE, IDENTITY, PLACE-MAKING AND THE DOMESTICATION OF NATUREChapter 6. Domestication of Peach Palm (Bactris gasipaes): the Roles of Human Mobility and MigrationCharles R. Clement, Laura Rival and David M. ColeChapter 7. Intermediation, Ethnogenesis and Landscape Transformation at the Intersection of the Andes and the Amazon: the Historical Ecology of the Lecos of Apolo, BoliviaMeredith DudleyChapter 8. The Political Ecology of Ethnic Frontiers and Relations among the Piaroa of the Middle OrinocoStanford ZentChapter 9. 'Ordenar El Pensamiento': Place-Making and the Moral Management of Resources in a Multi-Ethnic Territory, Amazonas, ColombiaGiovanna MicarelliChapter 10. Plants 'of the Ancestors', Plants 'of the Outsiders': Ese Eja History, Migration and Medicinal PlantsMiguel N. Alexiades and Daniela M. PelusoChapter 11. Weaving Power: Displacement and the Dynamics of Basketry Knowledge amongst the Kaiabi in the Brazilian AmazonSimone Ferreira de Athayde, Aturi Kaiabi, Katia Yukari Ono and Miguel N. AlexiadesChapter 12. Traditions in Transition: African Diaspora Ethnobotany in Lowland South AmericaRobert VoeksIndex