Landscape ethnoecology : concepts of biotic and physical space / edited by Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2009. - 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 9 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a theory of landscape ethnoecological classification / Eugene S. Hunn and Brien A. Meilleur -- Enthnophysiography of arid lands: categories for landscape features / David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, and David Stea -- Landscape perception, classification, and use among Sahelian Fulani in Burkina Faso / Julia Krohmer -- Baniwa vegetation classification in the white-sand campinarana habitat of the northwest Amazon, Brazil / Marcia Barbosa Abraão ... [et al.] -- Why aren't the Nuaulu like Matsigenka? Knowledge and categorization of forest diversity on Seram, eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen -- The cultural significance of the habitat mañaco taco to the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon / Michael P. Gilmore, Sebastián Ríos Ochoa, and Samuel Ríos Flores -- The structure and role of folk ecological knowledge in Les Allues, Savoie (France) / Brien Meilleur -- Life on the ice: understanding the codes of a changing environment / Claudio Aporta -- Visions of the land: Kaska ethnoecology, "kinds of place, " and "cultural landscape" / Leslie Main Johnson -- Journeying and remembering: Anishinaabe landscape ethnoecology from northwestern Ontario / Iain Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes -- What's in a name? Southern Paiute place names as keys to landscape perception / Catherine S. Fowler -- Managing Maya landscapes: Quintana Roo, Mexico / E.N. Anderson -- Landscape ethnoecology: reflections / Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn.

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Landscape assessment.
Landscape ecology.
Human geography.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Geographical perception.
Human geography.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology.

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