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Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Alexiades, Miguel N.

Paperback

Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Book 11

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0857457977
ISBN13: 9780857457974
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Dec 1 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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