Author: Janette FortePublisher: Amerindian Research Unit University of Guyana
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Material Culture of the Wapishana People of the South Rupununi Savannahs in 1989
Author: Janette FortePublisher: Amerindian Research Unit University of Guyana
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict
Author: Santosh C. SahaPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739110850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The existing traditions of inquiry into ethnic conflict can be classified into four categories: essentialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institutionalism. All four traditions have a distinguished lineage, but none can really account for the worldwide spread of ethnic violence. We need to move from the local to the macro or global. This book, using methodology from sociology, history, and politics, will present the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of linguistics, religion, territory, and tribes in various regions. These brilliant essays look at some of the most conflicted sites in the world, where ethnic violence has been created and played out: Burma, Indonesia, Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, the Sudan, Mexico, and Guyana. Divided into two parts, Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict is a rich text for scholars of conflict studies, focusing on the sources and dynamics of ethnic violence and providing descriptions of ethnic conflict across the globe.
Alcohol and Humans
Author: Kimberley HockingsPublisher:
ISBN: 0198842465
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. This fascinating multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding.
Tropical Forests of the Guiana Shield
Author: D. S. HammondPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9781845930929
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.
Wapishana Ethnoecology
Author: Thomas HenfreyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244043744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This landmark monograph in ethnoecology is now available in print format for the first time. Based on long-term fieldwork in Guyana during 1998, 1999 and 2000, it examines relationships between the ecological knowledge of Wapishana hunters and equivalent areas of ecological science. It places this in the ethnographic context of Wapishana settlement, subsistence and symbolism, and the wider context of the political ecology of Guyanas economic liberalisation and the consequent exposure of the indigenous peoples of Guyanas Rupununi region to extractive industries and international conservation interests for the first time. The result is a robust argument, grounded in extensive data and analysis, for alternative trajectories in conservation and international development rooted in the skills, knowledge and interests of indigenous users and custodians of biodiversity.
Proceedings of IDS Colloquium on Poverty in Guyana
Author: Caribbean Review of Books
Author: Transition
Author: Proceedings of the Humid Tropical Lowlands Conference: Session of contributed papers
Author: Primate Biogeography
Author: Shawn M. LehmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387317104
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Primate Biogeography is a subject rarely addressed as a discipline in its own right. This comprehensive source introduces the reader to Primate Biogeography as a discipline. It highlights the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates, and reveals the wide range of approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order. The biogeography of primates in the past is a major component of our understanding of their evolutionary history and is an essential component of conservation biology. This book will appeal to primatologists, physical anthropologists, zoologists, and undergraduates in these areas.