The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation

The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation
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Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9783940344199
ISBN-13 : 3940344192
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Book Synopsis The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation by : Petra Maass

Download or read book The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation written by Petra Maass and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2008 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.


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