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La Fixuca
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Mitoloxía y simbolismu alredor de la ñaturaleza y l'arquitectura tradicional de Cabreira (Llión)
Ensayu sobre mitoloxía, arquitectura, costumes y creyencias populares de la contorna de Cabreira, na provincia de Llión. El filu conductor escoyíu pol autor yía precisamente l'arquitectura popular d'esta zona de los Montes de Llión, una mirada histórica dende los primeiros asentamientos castreños prerromanos hasta las últimas edificaciones tradicionales que datan de finales del siegru XIX. L'estudiu contempla al traviés de los testimonios orales la etimoloxía del vocabulariu cabreirés y la toponimia, pero sobremaneira enfatiza la contribución y interpretación de mueitas lliendas, cuentos, creyencias y rituales presentes nesta rexón, común, cumo puede deducise fácilmente de la sua llectura, a todu l'área cultural del noroeste peninsulare.
The Green Web
This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
Defending the Land of the Jaguar
Mexican conservationists have sometimes observed that it is difficult to find a country less interested in the conservation of its natural resources than is Mexico. Yet, despite a long history dedicated to the pursuit of development regardless of its environmental consequences, Mexico has an equally long, though much less developed and appreciated, tradition of environmental conservation. Lane Simonian here offers the first panoramic history of conservation in Mexico from pre-contact times to the current Mexican environmental movement. He explores the origins of conservation and environmental concerns in Mexico, the philosophies and endeavors of Mexican conservationists, and the enactment of important conservation laws and programs. This heretofore untold story, drawn from interviews with leading Mexican conservationists as well as archival research, will be important reading throughout the international community of activists, researchers, and concerned citizens interested in the intertwined issues of conservation and development.
The Gate of the Pacific
"The author's efforts to open a route for an Atlantic-Pacific canal through Nicaragua. Discusses New Zealand's interest in this possible sea link and in particular the use of Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island as a coaling station (p. 371-375)"--Bagnall.
Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice
Compares the scientific concept of race with the social practice of racism, with emphasis on racism in the United States.
México Profundo
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural world. Health is related to human conduct, and community service is often part of each individual's ...
Places of Special Virtue
This volume explores the landscape settings of megalithic chambered monuments in Wales. Set against a broader theoretical discussion on the significance of the landscape, the authors consider the role of visual landscapes in prehistory, meanings attached to the landscape, and the values and beliefs invested in it. Wales is rich in Neolithic monuments, but the general absence of certain classic monumental forms found in the rest of Britain and Ireland, such as causewayed enclosures, henges, and cursus monuments, seems to have marginalized the Welsh record from many wider discussions on the Neolithic. Instead of seeing Wales as an area which lacks many of these 'classic' components, Cummings a...
