‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’: semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon

Landscape Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 77-94

  Wartmann, Flurina M ^a   Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; folk landscape categorisation; Landscape classification; landscape ethnoecology; Takana indigenous people

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA;

EID: 85014569581     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2016.1269882     Document Type: Article

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