TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’
T2 - semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon
AU - Wartmann, Flurina M.
AU - Purves, Ross S.
N1 - This work was supported from the ‘Forschungskredit’ by the University of Zurich [grant number FK-13-104]; Hans Vontobel Foundation; Maya Behn-Eschenburg Foundation; Ormella Foundation; and Parrotia Foundation.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Through a case study with Spanish-speaking Takana indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, we explored ethnoecological landscape categories, including their ecological underpinnings, cultural significance and hierarchical organisation. Using field walks and interviews with consultants, we elicited 156 ethnoecological landscape categories, 60 of which related to vegetation types. However, sorting exercises with landscape photographs revealed that vegetation was not a guiding organisation principle. Takana consultants organised ethnoecological landscape categories into geographical regions that contained different landscape features, including vegetation units, topographical or hydrological features. Comparing the documented ethnoecological landscape categorisation with a published scientific botanical classification of vegetation units, we observed some important conceptual differences, which in turn have implications for the management of such landscapes.
AB - Through a case study with Spanish-speaking Takana indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, we explored ethnoecological landscape categories, including their ecological underpinnings, cultural significance and hierarchical organisation. Using field walks and interviews with consultants, we elicited 156 ethnoecological landscape categories, 60 of which related to vegetation types. However, sorting exercises with landscape photographs revealed that vegetation was not a guiding organisation principle. Takana consultants organised ethnoecological landscape categories into geographical regions that contained different landscape features, including vegetation units, topographical or hydrological features. Comparing the documented ethnoecological landscape categorisation with a published scientific botanical classification of vegetation units, we observed some important conceptual differences, which in turn have implications for the management of such landscapes.
KW - Amazon rainforest
KW - folk landscape categorisation
KW - Landscape classification
KW - landscape ethnoecology
KW - Takana indigenous people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014569581&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01426397.2016.1269882
DO - 10.1080/01426397.2016.1269882
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014569581
VL - 43
SP - 77
EP - 94
JO - Landscape Research
JF - Landscape Research
SN - 0142-6397
IS - 1
ER -
