Between the Andes and the Amazon

Between the Andes and the Amazon
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780816537266
ISBN-13 : 0816537267
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Between the Andes and the Amazon by : Anna Babel

Examining how people understand themselves and others in the linguistic crossroads of South America--Provided by publisher.

Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon

Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781003849209
ISBN-13 : 1003849202
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon by : Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio

Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions. How do we learn and practice law across epistemic and ontological difference? What sort of methodologies do we need? In what sense does conjuring other-than-human beings as sentient, cognitive and social agents— rather than mere recipients of state-sanctioned rights—transform what we mean by “law” and “rights of nature”? Legal institutions exclusively focused on human perspectives seem insufficiently capable of addressing current socio-ecological challenges in Latin America and beyond. In response, this book strives to integrate other-than-human beings within legal thinking and decision-making protocols. Weaving together various fields of knowledge and world-making practices that include—but are not limited to—Indigenous legal traditions, Earth Law and multispecies ethnography, Law, Humans and Plants focuses on the entanglement of law, ecology and Indigenous cosmologies in Southern Colombia. In so doing, it articulates a general postanthropocentric legal theory which is proposed, a tool to address socioecological challenges such as climate change and bio-cultural loss. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the disciplines of environmental law, Earth Law and ecological law, legal theory and critical legal studies as well as others working in the in the fields of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, legal anthropology and sustainability and climate change justice.

Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica

Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9781000023091
ISBN-13 : 1000023095
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica by : Ernst Halbmayer

This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo・Colombian Area.

Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide

Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide
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Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781787357358
ISBN-13 : 178735735X
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide by : Adrian J. Pearce

Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).

Naylor's System of Teaching Geography

Naylor's System of Teaching Geography
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044096984802
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Naylor's System of Teaching Geography by : Benjamin Naylor

Synergia

Synergia
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Publisher : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 8400085787
ISBN-13 : 9788400085780
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Synergia by : Néstor Herrán

Heads of State

Heads of State
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781315427553
ISBN-13 : 1315427559
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Heads of State by : Denise Y Arnold

The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head imagery on pots and on stone, head-shaped vessels, and linguistic references to the head. In this synthesizing work, cultural anthropologist Denise Arnold and archaeologist Christine Hastorf examine the cult of heads in the Andes—past and present—to develop a theory of its place in indigenous cultural practice and its relationship to political systems. Using ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork, highland-lowland comparisons, archival documents, oral histories, and ritual texts, the authors draw from Marx, Mauss, Foucault, Assadourian, Viveiros del Castro and other theorists to show how heads shape and symbolize power, violence, fertility, identity, and economy in South American cultures.

Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America

Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9780262113243
ISBN-13 : 0262113244
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America by : Stephan Klasen

Papers from a conference held at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in Göttingen, Germany, in July 2005 and co-sponsored by the CESifo research network.

The Andes

The Andes
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9783319035307
ISBN-13 : 3319035304
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Andes by : Axel Borsdorf

The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by regional political developments, such as the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela or the almost unfettered hegemony of the neoliberal economic model in Chile. This volume is the first attempt for decades to present a complete overview of the longest mountain chain on the planet – a region of remarkable climatic, floristic and geologic diversity, where advanced civilization developed well before the arrival of the Spanish. Today the Andes continue to be characterized by their ethnic, demographic, cultural and economic diversity, as well as by the disparity of local socioeconomic groups. The Andean countries pursue a wide range of approaches to tackle the challenges of making the best use of their natural and cultural potential without damaging their ecological basis, as well as to overcome economic disparity and foster social cohesion. This book provides insights into this unique region and its most pressing issues, complemented by a wealth of pictures and comprehensive diagrams, which, in sum, help to better understand these fascinating mountains.