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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"cultural ecology"”.
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Networks in nature: applying cultural ecology for stewardship
… applied to support environmental management as a cultural activity. Such an understanding focuses attention to natural resources and community as a singular system. To illustrate, part 5 is a case study that profiles a unique company, Iroquois Valley Farmland Real Estate Investment Trust, whose …
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The Poetics of sensory-spatial experience in varieties of leisure consumption and the diversity of cultural ecology.
… of a liminal or transitional nature, between cultural and commercial consumption; these being of presumed importance in the promotion of increased leisure activities of a cultural and artistic nature as a social 'good' or utopian ideal. Such an orientation, prevalent in post-industrial …
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Environment, Economics, and Family Farm Systems: Farm Expansion and Adaptation on the Western Slopes of Andean Ecuador (Cultural Ecology)
This study assesses the popularity of multizonal farming on the western slopes of Andean Ecuador. It is based on 18 months of fieldwork in a multiethnic area of Bolivar Province known as Llullundongo, where the sale and expropriation of estates in the first part of this century allowed for farm …
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Evidence of the Chumash plank canoe at Ca-Sba52, Santa Barbara County, California
… is critical to many models of culture change and cultural ecology in the Santa Barbara Channel area. The assemblage of artifacts and features at CA-SBa-52 on the Goleta Slough adds to the body of data regarding the development of the tomol and indicates that it may have had a longer history in the …
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End-of-life care in China: ecology of hope
… in the family, health care and the broader sociocultural environment. The study revealed the nature of hope as essentially affirming life in all circumstances and as situated and fostered in a "hierarchical social and cultural ecology of hope" (Feudtner 2005, p. S23) comprising an individual, his …
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Isiko Lehlathi 'The Customary Rights of the Forest': Unearthing the True Nature of Botanical Gardens
… break the colonial rigour to develop inclusive cultural principles of cultivation and harvest that share the same conservational values as the existing ones. Botanical Gardens have historically been defined by Eurocentric values of cultivating natural landscapes, conserving flora and fauna, and …
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Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?
… a gallery or arts centre - my aim is to show how cultural provision can be framed through a combination of durational commitment to place and effective cultural management. To do this, I have been reflecting on twenty-five years of working in the small-town community setting, examining …
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Genealogies and narratives of San authenticities the ?Khomani San land claim in the southern Kalahari
… how the San see themselves situated within this cultural�ecological complex. This exploration of the cultural�ecological landscape is not meant to mirror previous San studies of cultural ecology but rather to offer an account of a possible San ontology. The thesis gives an inventory firstly of …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… studies, as well as environmental history and cultural ecology, I attempt to examine fundamental differences in worldview and lifeways between what Raymond Dasmann called biosphere peoples and small-scale, traditional societies, or ecosystem peoples. By tracing the movement of biospheric …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… studies, as well as environmental history and cultural ecology, I attempt to examine fundamental differences in worldview and lifeways between what Raymond Dasmann called biosphere peoples and small-scale, traditional societies, or ecosystem peoples. By tracing the movement of biospheric …
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Trappers and Traders in the Keewatin: The Fur Trade as an Agent of Acculturation
… the material or ecological, and the social and cultural realms. A key facet of this analysis will hinge on the development of a body of ideas tentatively designed to frame those changes as they transpired at local and regional levels. This theoretical framework will incorporate models drawn from …
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Artisanal whaling in the Atlantic: a comparative study of culture, conflict, and conservation in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands
… and 1,358 in the Faroe Islands. Whaling is both culturally and practically significant in both locations, providing not only a connection to history, but a source of food as well. However, the continuation of both operations may be threatened by the presence of methyl-mercury and other …
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Unto The Third & Fourth Generation of African-Americans: Kaleb Norris's Stories of Generational Poverty And Inequality In The South
This is an inquiry that explores the cross-generational lived affects of educational, political, and public policies on my paternal family from 1899 to the present in Northern Mississippi and West Tennessee. It is an exploration of my family's history and my lived experience as the first person in …