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The cultural context of biodiversity conservation: seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala
Der kulturelle Kontext der Bewahrung der Biodiversität: overte und latente Dimensionen indigenen Wissens bei den Q'eqchi' in Guatemala
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Abstract How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship b... mehr
How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
kulturelle Faktoren; Biodiversität; Landschaft; indigene Völker; Umweltpolitik; Ritual; Mittelamerika; Subsistenzwirtschaft; Landwirtschaft; Entwicklungsland; Guatemala; Umwelt; Religion; kollektive Identität; Weltbild; Umweltschutz; Wissen; Lateinamerika
Klassifikation
Ökologie und Umwelt
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Methode
deskriptive Studie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Verlag
Univ.-Verl. Göttingen
Erscheinungsort
Göttingen
Seitenangabe
283 S.
Schriftenreihe
Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie, 2
ISSN
1866-0711
ISBN
978-3-940344-19-9
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung