Contingent diversity on anthropic landscapes

Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-181

  Balée, William ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon region; Contingency; Ka'apor Indians; Landscape transformation; Recognition of diversity; Systems of traditional knowledge (TK)

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 77956493829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14242818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/d2020163     Document Type: Article

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