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The Prehistory of Food
The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case studies.
Nukak
From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fragile, and because his work with the Nukak represented one of the last opportunities to conduct research with hunter-gatherers using contemporary methodological and the theoretical tools. Through a rich and comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture “in the making,” this work makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies. Politis’s conclusions, based on six years of original research and on comparative analysis, are integrative and contribute to the identification of the multiple factors involved in the formation of hunter-gatherer archaeological assemblages.
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society is a comprehensive guide that provides insights into the multifaceted relationship between climate change and society and covers a wide array of topics, disciplines, and cultures, from the latest trends in weather patterns to the issue of climate (in)justice. The second edition, which is overwhelmingly comprised of all-new essays, is an indispensable resource for those interested in understanding the complexities of climate change and its societal implications. The book contains seven thematically organized sections examining the various aspects of climate change and its intersection with our society: Climate Change in the Natural and Social S...
Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems that was published in Forests
Marking the Land
Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications to the landscape that hunter-gatherers themselves make. Such alterations may be intentional or unintentional, temporary or permanent, and they can carry multiple layers of meaning, ranging from practical signs that provide guidance and information through to less direct indications of identity or abstract, highly symbolic signs of sacred or ceremonial significance. This volume investigates the conditions which determine the investment of time and effort in physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers, and the factors which determine the extent to which these modifications are symbolically charged. Considering hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale, Marking the Land provides a systematic consideration of this neglected aspect of hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which they live.
Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption
This volume outlines and illustrates the importance of considering social contexts of food consumption in interpretations of past and present human societies, giving a new twist to the old adage 'You are what you eat'. What we eat, how we eat, are and always have been fundamental to the structuring of social life, both in the past and in the present. The remains of food are also among the most common archaeological finds. The papers in this volume explore and develop ways of using food to write social history; they move beyond taphonomic and economic properties of 'subsistence resources' to examine the social background and cultural contexts of food preparation and consumption. Contributions break new ground in method and interpretation in case studies spanning the Palaeolithic to the Present, and from the Amazon to the Arctic. This volume will thus be essential reading for all archaeologists, anthropologists and social historians interested in the prehistory and history of food consumption.
Flora del escudo guayanes en Inirida (Guainia, Colombia)
La publicación Flora del Escudo Guayanes en Inírida (Guainía, Colombia), incluye una lista anotada de las especies de plantas que crecen en el municipio de Inírida y sus áreas adyacentes, en la que se registran 974 especies, de las cuales 105 constituyen primeros registros para la flora colombiana; también contiene un análisis florístico de la región, algunas consideraciones fitogeográficas y alrededor de 200 fotografias a color de las especies más representativas de la zona, esto con el animo de proporcionar una herramienta practica para la identificación de las especies caracteristicas de la zona.
Flora de las formaciones rocosas de la serranía de La Lindosa
La Serranía de La Lindosa es una de las pocas formaciones rocosas que se encuentran en la Amazonía colombiana. Al igual que la Serranía de la Macarena y la Serranía de Chibiriquete, hace parte de la expresión más occidental del núcleo Precámbrico del continente suramericano. Dentro de la Serranía de La Lindosa se encuentra un variado número de ecosistemas propios de esta formación ancestral y muchos otros que son la proyección de la selva amazónica circundante. El presente trabajo concentra sus esfuerzos en aportar información sobre la formación rocosa de la Serranía de La Lindosa, la cual presenta características legales, geológica.
Plantas introducidas, establecidas e invasoras en Amazonia colombiana
Esta publicación que entrega el Instituto Sinchi, sobre las especies introducidas, establecidas e invasoras, es una herramienta oportuna para generar alertas tempranas que impedirán que estas se conviertan en un factor de pérdida de la biodiversidad nativa, permitirá identificar cuales especies pueden ser usadas con mucha precaución ya que presentan altos riesgos de invasión; se constituye en un valioso apoyo para la toma de decisiones en torno a las especies que se deben controlar y sirve como base para la elección de especies pueden ser utilizadas en procesos de restauración y rehabilitación de los ecosistemas transformados. La presente publicación nos plantea un gran reto sobre ...
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
