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The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation

dc.contributor.authorMaass, Petra
dc.date.accessioned2008-04-29T16:12:14Z
dc.date.available2014-04-29T16:12:14Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17875/gup2008-417
dc.descriptionSoftcover, 303 S.: 38,00 €
dc.format.extent303
dc.format.mediumPrint
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGöttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
dc.subject.ddc300
dc.subject.otherOAPEN
dc.titleThe Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation
dc.title.alternativeSeen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge Among Qʹeqchiʹ Communities in Guatemala
dc.typemonograph
dc.price.print38,00
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:7-isbn-978-3-940344-19-9-6
dc.identifier.ppn583990673
dc.relation.ppn583987648
dc.description.printSoftcover, 17x24
dc.subject.divisionpeerReviewed
dc.relation.isbn-13978-3-940344-19-9
dc.relation.issn1866-0711
dc.identifier.articlenumber8100651
dc.identifier.internisbn-978-3-940344-19-9
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume002
dc.subject.bisacSOC002010
dc.notes.oaiprint
dc.subject.vlb750
dc.subject.bicJ
dc.subject.bicJHM
dc.description.abstractengHow 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.
dc.subject.engbiodiversity
dc.subject.enganthropology
dc.subject.engGuatemala
dc.subject.engindigenous population
dc.identifier.oapen353542
dc.notes.vlb-printlieferbar
dc.intern.doi10.17875/gup2008-417
dc.identifier.purlhttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?isbn-978-3-940344-19-9
dc.identifier.asin3940344192
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