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Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
Stéphen Rostain
Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
Stéphen Rostain
Descripción
Stéphen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing intensive raised-field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island Guiana with other wetland regions around the world; and examining millennia of pre-Columbian settlement and colonial occupation alike. Rostain's work demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlement in tropical lowlands and landscape management by its inhabitants over the course of millennia.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 277 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | Routledge |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2014-04-01 |
| Dimensiones | 8.96" x 6.12" x 0.68" pulgadas |
| Serie | New Frontiers in Historical Ecology |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Estudios del Norte, Estudios del Norte, América Latina, América Latina |
Acerca del Autor
Stéphen Rostain is Director of Investigation at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. He received his Ph.D. on the archaeology of French Guiana in 1994 from the Sorbonne University in Paris. He has conducted archaeological excavations in France, Mexico, Guatemala, Aruba and Brazil, but his main investigations have been conducted in Amazonia, especially in the Guianas and in Ecuador. Rostain has published more than 100 articles, book chapters and books. In 2008, he received in Paris the Clio award for archaeological projects in foreign countries. The distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola is chair of anthropology of nature at the Collège de France and author of numerous books, including In the Society of Nature and The Spears of Twilight.
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| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.472 kg |
| SKU: | 9781598746358 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 22/12/23 |
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