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Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades
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Abstract This article explores the process by which the cultural history of Royal Palm Hammock, the most visited site within Everglades National Park, Florida, informs the landscape's natural history. To understand this process, I analyze the scientific literature, including naturalists' fieldwork reports, s... view more
This article explores the process by which the cultural history of Royal Palm Hammock, the most visited site within Everglades National Park, Florida, informs the landscape's natural history. To understand this process, I analyze the scientific literature, including naturalists' fieldwork reports, surveys, fieldnotes and other archival material spanning the late 1800s to the mid-1930s, as well as ethnographic interviews conducted with local Everglades hunters who depended upon this landscape during the latter part of this era. As I demonstrate, local people, serving as guides and informants, critically contributed to the production of ecological knowledge about Royal Palm Hammock, though the evidence of these contributions has been distorted by the natural history literature's negative stereotypes of local landscape practices.... view less
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Florida Everglades; landscape; natural history;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 207-229
Journal
Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007087497
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)