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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008


Title:

Local Knowledge Systems: Cultural, Historical and Political Ecology Perspectives I

Description:

This session focuses on current research on local/ indigenous environmental knowledge systems considered through the lens of cultural, political and/or historical ecology.

Anticipated Attendance:

Illustrated Paper Session

Organizers:

Antoinette WinklerPrins

Chairs:

Antoinette WinklerPrins

Participants:

Presenter:

William E. Doolittle, Aqueducts of Morelos

Presenter:

Godson C. Obia, Threats to Traditional Medical Knowledge and Implications for Health and Well-Being in Some Rural Communities of West Africa

Presenter:

Ingrid B Haeckel, The Hidden Ceremonial Harvest: Demand and Management Strategies for Epiphytic Tillandsias in Veracruz, Mexico

Presenter:

Angela May Steward, Fields, fallows, and home gardens: The value of cultivated plant diversity in an urbanizing Amazonian community (state of Amapá, Brazil)

Presenter:

Leif Brottem, Rediscovering 'terroir' in West African agroforestry parklands

Presenter:

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

Presenter:

Paul Laris, An anthropogenic escape route for young trees in the savanna of Mali, West Africa

Presenter:

John H. Kelly, Parajes and PROCEDE: The future of Zapotec sub-community land tenure zones in Oaxaca, Mexico

Presenter:

Antoinette WinklerPrins, Local knowledge of Amazonian Dark Earth formation in homegardens.

 

Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

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