The cultural context of biodiversity conservation
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...
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Universitätsverlag Göttingen
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-318002025-07-30T10:20:49Z The cultural context of biodiversity conservation Maass, Petra biodiversity anthropology Guatemala indigenous population thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2020-04-15T02:37:12Z 2008 book book OCN: 798294413 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37017 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31800 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37017/1/GBE2_maass.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37017/1/GBE2_maass.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37017/1/GBE2_maass.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37017/1/GBE2_maass.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37017/1/GBE2_maass.pdf Universitätsverlag Göttingen 10.17875/gup2008-417 10.17875/gup2008-417 af9011e0-03b9-4a5c-9ae6-b9da4898d1b2 AG Universitätsverlage open access |
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| topic | biodiversity anthropology Guatemala indigenous population thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology |
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