Landscape Ethnoecology

Landscape EthnoecologyAlthough anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored place in various senses, little cross cultural examination of kinds of place, or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors go beyond the traditional ecological

Lens on China: Intermediate and Advanced Readings on Film for Learning Chinese is an innovative textbook that uses film to teach Mandarin Chinese

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Global predicaments like climate change and persistent wealth inequalities compel recognition that we are in the midst of an era-defining shift from the primacy of the technical to that of the ethical

emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention

religious pluralism

markets for food as well as for capital

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presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court

and an equal playing field can be created for all nations

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