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Author : John Richard Gorham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paraguay: Ecological Essays written by John Richard Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Richard Gorham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Paraguay written by J. Richard Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Richard Gorham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913570036
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Paraguay, Ecological Essays Edited by J. Richard Gorham. Introd. by Jesse D. Perkinson. Contributors, G. T. Bertoni (and Others) written by John Richard Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Richard Gorham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Paraguay written by J. Richard Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcos Glauser
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643910118
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Angaité's responses to deforestation written by Marcos Glauser and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gran Chaco, the second largest biome of South America, entered a phase of deep and fast environmental changes a few decades ago. Indigenous peoples are amongst those most affected. This dissertation focuses on the responses of the Angaité of La Patria to altered access, use and management of natural resources inside and outside their colony over the past 20 years (1995-2015). From a third-generation political ecologists’ perspective, I consider the Angaité’s adaptation a transformation of cosmographical practices because the latter contribute to the production of a particular place or territory and a particular understanding of the world.
Author : Philip Myers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520095540
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Patterns of Reproduction of Four Species of Vespertilionid Bats in Paraguay written by Philip Myers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Andrew Nickson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810879646
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Paraguay written by R. Andrew Nickson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land-locked Paraguay is one of the smaller nations of Latin America, whose global image is now changing very rapidly. In the process, the tired stereotype of a “forgotten” country comprising only military dictators, Nazis, and steam trains is being rapidly discarded. Indeed Paraguay is now no longer off the map and its unique history is attracting growing interest. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Paraguay covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Paraguay.
Author : John Renshaw
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803239388
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (393 download)
Download or read book The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco written by John Renshaw and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork and ongoing contact with local indigenous organizations in Paraguay, John Renshaw presents an overview of contemporary Indian life in the Paraguayan Chaco.
Author : Kim Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329235
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Ache Life History written by Kim Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part exemplary ethnography of the Ache and in larger part uses this population to make a signal contribution to human evolutionary ecology.
Author : A. Douglas Kinghorn
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415268301
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Stevia written by A. Douglas Kinghorn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevia rebaudiana is a remarkable South American plant that has become widely used in certain parts of the world as a natural sweetening agent and dietary supplement. Purified extracts of S. rebaudiana have been used as sweeteners and flavor enhancers in the food industry in Japan for over a quarter of a century, and have been found to be up to 300 times sweeter than sucrose. This comprehensive volume provides reviews on the botany, ethnobotany, and chemical constituents of the genus Stevia and examines the chemical synthesis of such compounds as steviol and stevioside. The perceived safety of these compounds has become somewhat controversial in recent years, and a thorough consideration of the pharmacology and biological activity is provided. The final two chapters offer some insight into the various applications of S. rebaudiana extracts and stevioside in Japan and Korea, the two countries with the most extensive use of these food additives at present. Containing numerous up to date references, the book will appeal to a wide segment of the scientific community at all levels, especially those in the fields of natural products, pharmacy, pharmacognosy, plant science, agriculture and the food and beverages industry.
Author : R. Andrew Nickson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paraguay written by R. Andrew Nickson and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selective, annotated bibliography, arranged by subject, aims to familiarize the reader with the best sources on a wide range of subjects relating to Paraguay. It focuses on material published since 1989, but classic texts and other key publications are also covered. Books published in English are emphasized, but many works in Spanish are also represented. Of the 742 entries, most are for published books, but a considerable number of periodical articles are also cited. The volume begins with an introductory essay, briefly outlining Paraguay's history from 1537 to the present. Nickson is a Reader in Public Management and Latin American Development at the University of Birmingham, England. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Warren Dean
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520919082
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book With Broadax and Firebrand written by Warren Dean and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants. Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s—through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century. Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest.
Author : Jan M. G. Kleinpenning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paraguay, 1515-1870 written by Jan M. G. Kleinpenning and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Schofield Saeger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550700
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Chaco Mission Frontier written by James Schofield Saeger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish missions in the New World usually pacified sedentary peoples accustomed to the agricultural mode of mission life, prompting many scholars to generalize about mission history. James Saeger now reconsiders the effectiveness of the missions by examining how Guaycuruan peoples of South America's Gran Chaco adapted to them during the eighteenth century. Because the Guaycuruans were hunter-gatherers less suited to an agricultural lifestyle, their attitudes and behaviors can provide new insight about the impact of missions on native peoples. Responding to recent syntheses of the mission system, Saeger proposes that missions in the Gran Chaco did not fit the usual pattern. Through research in colonial documents, he reveals the Guaycuruan perspective on the missions, thereby presenting an alternative view of Guaycuruan history and the development of the mission system. He investigates Guaycuruan social, economic, political, and religious life before the missions and analyzes subsequent changes; he then traces Guaycuruan history into the modern era and offers an assessment of what Catholic missions meant to these peoples. Saeger's research into Spanish documents is unique for its elicitation of the Indian point of view. He not only reconstructs Guaycuruan life independent of Spanish contact but also shows how these Indians negotiated the conditions under which they would adapt to the mission way of life, thereby retaining much of their independence. By showing that the Guaycuruans were not as restricted in missions as has been assumed, Saeger demonstrates that there is a distinct difference between the establishment of missions and conquest. The Chaco Mission Frontier helps redefine mission studies by correcting overgeneralization about their role in Latin America.
Author : Gary Urton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292790511
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky written by Gary Urton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above Misminay, the sky also is so divided by the alternation of the two axes of the Milky Way passing through the zenith. This mirror-image quadri-partition of terrestrial and celestial spheres is such that a point within one of the quarters of the earth is related to a point within the corresponding celestial quarter. The transition between the earth and the sky occurs at the horizon, where sacred mountains are related to topographic and celestial features. Based on fieldwork in Misminay, Peru, Gary Urton details a cosmology in which the Milky Way is central. This is the first study that provides a description and analysis of the astronomical and cosmological system in a contemporary community in the Americas. Separate chapters take up the sun, the moon, meteorological phenomena, the stars, and the planets. Star-to-star constellations, the "animal" dark-cloud constellations that cut through the Milky Way, and certain twilight- and midnight-zenith stars are analyzed in terms of their spatial and temporal integration within an indigenous cosmological framework. Urton breaks new ground by demonstrating the indigenous merging of such forms of "precise knowledge" as astronomy, meteorology, agriculture, and the correlation of astronomical and biological cycles within a single calendar system. More than sixty diagrams clarify this Quechua system of astronomy and relate it to more familiar principles of Western astronomy and cosmology.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422374566
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the American Philosophical Society written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. R. Oliver
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 9782831701417
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos written by William L. R. Oliver and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
