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  • The Maya Forest Waterlands

    Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics, and Fluid Borders

    by Hanna Laako, Edith Kauffer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    This book examines the entanglements and blurred edges of nature conservation and geopolitical relations in the borderlands of the trinational Maya Forest.Maya Forest is an umbrella term for transboundary conservation developed by scientists and conservationists in the 1990s to protect the threatened rainforest in the borderlands of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Currently, the Maya Forest is a ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • A Barrister for the Earth

    'Law could be our planet's greatest hope' - Isabella Tree

    by Monica Feria-Tinta ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS'Inspiring . . . Law could be our planet's greatest hope.'ISABELLA TREE'Fascinating and compelling . . . A vital book for our times.'JULIAN HOFFMAN**'A seminal and important book which will become a key part of the gathering movement to protect the rights of nature.'SARAH LANGFORD*Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law? ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    by Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Green Republic

    A Conservation History of Costa Rica

    by Sterling Evans ...
    With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Caribbean before Columbus

    by William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman ...
    The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks; from large islands to small cays; from islands with tropical rainforests to those with desert habitats. Today's inhabitants have equally diverse culture histories. The islands are home to a mosaic of indigenous ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence

    Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: ElQuisco and Puerto Oscuro

    by Gloria L. Gallardo Fernandez ...
    From Seascapes of extinction to seascapes of confidence. Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: El Quisco and Puerto Oscuro by Gloria Gallardo Fernandés is an important contribution to our understanding of the multifaceted challenges underlying sustainable solutions to ecological fisheries, the book describes how, in Chile, indiscriminate harvest of the edible shellfish Concholepas ... Read more

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  • The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon

    Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest

    by Fábio Zuker ...
    Translated by Ezra E. Fitz ...
    As the Amazon burns, Fábio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land.In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajós River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days, environmentalists, journalists, and locals followed the lost whale, hoping to guide her back to the ocean, but ultimately proved unable to save her. ... Read more

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  • From Many Cultures, One Nation

    Ethnicity and Nationalism in Belizean Children

    by Sarah Woodbury ...
    Children possess national and ethnic identity, whether or not we want them to, and often that identity includes elements of their own devising.Since independence, the Belizean government has sought to promote a national Belizean identity by recognizing the cultures of its multiple ethnic groups, and including all these groups in its social studies curriculum. Thus, in Belize, ethnicity and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

    by Dr. Basil A. Reid ...
    Series series Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs popular audiences, as well as scholars, about the current state of archaeological/historical research in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lines in the Water

    Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca

    by Ben Orlove ...
    This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Big Ditch

    Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

    by Ashley Carse ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD