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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008
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Local Knowledge Systems: Cultural, Historical and Political Ecology Perspectives I |
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This session focuses on current research on local/ indigenous environmental knowledge systems considered through the lens of cultural, political and/or historical ecology.
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Illustrated Paper Session |
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William E. Doolittle, Aqueducts of Morelos |
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Godson C. Obia, Threats to Traditional Medical Knowledge and Implications for Health and Well-Being in Some Rural Communities of West Africa |
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Ingrid B Haeckel, The Hidden Ceremonial Harvest: Demand and Management Strategies for Epiphytic Tillandsias in Veracruz, Mexico |
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Angela May Steward, Fields, fallows, and home gardens: The value of cultivated plant diversity in an urbanizing Amazonian community (state of Amapá, Brazil) |
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Leif Brottem, Rediscovering 'terroir' in West African agroforestry parklands |
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Narciso Barrera Bassols & Marta Astier, Local theories about nature as the basis for the defense and maintenance of local maize diversity: A case from central Mexico |
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Paul Laris, An anthropogenic escape route for young trees in the savanna of Mali, West Africa |
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John H. Kelly, Parajes and PROCEDE: The future of Zapotec sub-community land tenure zones in Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Antoinette WinklerPrins, Local knowledge of Amazonian Dark Earth formation in homegardens. |
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Sponsorships: |
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
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