Full Description
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: EDGES
Chapter 1. Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Chapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral Ecology
Chapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 5. Babylon and the 'Crisis of Modernity'.
PART II: FRINGES
Chapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence
Chapter 7. A Plural Reality
Chapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep South
Chapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence
Chapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence
PART III: FRONTIERS
Chapter 11. Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies
Chapter 12. Cultural Edges and Frontiers
Conclusion
References
Index
