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The cultural context of biodiversity conservation: seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala

Der kulturelle Kontext der Bewahrung der Biodiversität: overte und latente Dimensionen indigenen Wissens bei den Q'eqchi' in Guatemala
[phd thesis]

Maass, Petra

Abstract

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 b... view more

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.... view less

Keywords
Latin America; biodiversity; Central America; environmental policy; subsistence economy; environmental protection; indigenous peoples; cultural factors; knowledge; agriculture; ritual; landscape; Guatemala; collective identity; religion; environment; worldview; developing country

Classification
Ecology, Environment
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology

Method
descriptive study

Document language
English

Publication Year
2008

Publisher
Univ.-Verl. Göttingen

City
Göttingen

Page/Pages
283 p.

Series
Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie, 2

ISSN
1866-0711

ISBN
978-3-940344-19-9

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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