Overview

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.

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Author:   Thomas Henfrey
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   23
ISBN:  

9781785339882

ISBN 10:   1785339885
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   14 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements PART I: EDGES Chapter 1. Edges, Fringes, Frontiers Chapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral Ecology Chapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology Chapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology Chapter 5. Babylon and the 'Crisis of Modernity'. PART II: FRINGES Chapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence Chapter 7. A Plural Reality Chapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep South Chapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence Chapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence PART III: FRONTIERS Chapter 11. Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies Chapter 12. Cultural Edges and Frontiers Conclusion References Index

Reviews

Henfrey offers a complex and creative way to rethink the climate crisis, with a sharp critique of dominant, Western shaped approaches, emerging from his ethnographic material, and guided by a complicated and nuanced theoretical framework... Overall, this book provides a new way to explore our environmental crisis and fundamentally rethink [our] understanding of, characterization of and engagement with our natural environment. - Anthropos

Author Information

Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. His previous publications include Wapishana Ethnoecology, Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation and the edited volume Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.

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