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    Balancing on a Planet: Toward an Agricultural Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century (1998)
    Springer
    Human ecology 26 (1998), S. 323-340 
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    ISSN: 1572-9915
    Keywords: AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION ; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ; POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE ; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ; AFRICA
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Ethnic Sciences
    Notes: Abstract Robert Netting had a central role in establishing agricultural anthropology. Many people rightly remember him as an astute ethnographer of farming communities, focused on analyzing the empirical details of changing patterns of household composition, land holding size and labor use. Yet, during his career he was increasingly concerned about the sustainability of smallholder vs. conventional industrial agriculture models on a global scale. Thus, Netting also had an important role in laying the foundation for the development of an agricultural anthropology for the twenty-first century, an anthropology that shows how smallholders “balancing on an Alp” can help us to understand how we might balance on this planet. This paper analyzes Netting's contribution to the future of agricultural anthropology in three key areas: the environment, population, and agriculture relationship; farmer knowledge and epistemology; and models for global sustainability.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018775008772
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    Yucatec Maya Medicinal Plants Versus Nonmedicinal Plants: Indigenous Characterization and Selection (1999)
    Springer
    Human ecology 27 (1999), S. 557-580 
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    ISSN: 1572-9915
    Keywords: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ; MEDICINAL PLANTS ; NONMEDICINAL PLANTS ; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE ; ETHNOBOTANY ; PLANT SELECTION CRITERIA ; TASTE ; SMELL ; HOT-COLD CLASSIFICATION ; YUCATEC MAYA ; YUCATAN (MEXICO)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Ethnic Sciences
    Notes: Abstract Medicinal plants are an important part of the environment as it is perceived by Mexican indigenous groups. The aim of this study, which was conducted over a period of 18 months in three Yucatec Mayan communities, is to better understand the selection criteria for medicinal plants. An important group of selection criteria are the flavor and aroma of plants. The absence of smell or taste indicates that the taxon has no potential medical value. Medicinal plants are more often considered to be sweet or aromatic (to smell good) or astringent, while a similar percentage of medicinal and nonmedicinal plants are considered bitter, spicy, acidic, or bad smelling. The relationship between the ethnobotanical data obtained for the individual plants and the secondary plant products (natural products) prominent in each species is specifically addressed in this paper. It shows that an understanding of the indigenous concepts used to distinguish medicinal from nonmedicinal species has considerable heuristic value.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018791927215
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    Environmental Change and Pastoral Perceptions: Degradation and Indigenous Knowledge in Two African Pastoral Communities (1999)
    Springer
    Human ecology 27 (1999), S. 493-514 
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    ISSN: 1572-9915
    Keywords: AFRICAN PASTORALISTS ; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Ethnic Sciences
    Notes: Abstract Mobile livestock herders have long been seen as the main culprits of over-stocking and rangeland degradation. In recent years, however, anthropologists and ecologists have argued that African pastoralists have developed sustainable modes of pasture management based on a sound knowledge of savanna ecosystems. Comparing indigenous knowledge on species' grazing values, plant succession, and ideas about the causes for environmental change in two African pastoral societies (the Kenyan Pokot and the Namibian Himba), it is shown that their knowledge is indeed fine-grained and complex but at the same time socially constructed and embedded in ideology. It relates to a cultural landscape and not to abstract considerations on climax vegetation and its changes over time. Pastoral knowledge is built up around the interaction between herds and vegetation rather than around the environment as such.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018783725398
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