Edges, Fringes, Frontiers: Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

by Thomas Henfrey

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785339899
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/14/2018
Series:	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology , #23
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	270
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.

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

Editorial 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

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