Ethno-ornithology : birds, indigenous peoples, culture and society
Record details
- ISBN: 9781844077830
- ISBN: 1844077837
- ISBN: 9781849713382
- ISBN: 1849713383
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Physical Description:
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xxii, 346 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm - Publisher: London ; Washington D.C. : Earthscan, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | First paperback ed.: 2011. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Indigenous knowledges, birds that have 'spoken' and science / Sonia Tidemann, Sharon Chirgwin and J. Ross Sinclair -- Ethno-ornithology and biological conservation / Mark Bonta -- The broader significance of ethno-ornithology / Andrew Gosler with Deborah Buehler and Alberto Castillo -- The Māori and the Huia / David C. Houston -- The impact of red feather currency on the population of the scarlet honeyeater on Santa Cruz / David C. Houston -- Entrapment of wetland birds : local customs and methods of hunting in Krangkeng, Indramayu, Central Java / Surya Purnama and Mochamad Indrawan -- Wildlife hunting and bird trade in northern Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia / Margaretha Pangau-Adam and Richard Noske -- Transmutation of human knowledge about birds in 16th century Honduras / Mark Bonta -- Sound, sight, stories and science : avoiding pitfalls in ethno-ornithological research, with examples from Kenya / Fleur Ng'weno -- What the locals know : comparing traditional and scientific knowledge of megapodes in Melanesia / J. Ross Sinclair, Lorima Tuke and Muse Opiang -- The birds and nature in the stepwells of Gujarat, western India / Purnima Mehta Bhat -- Aboriginal stories : the riches and colour of Australian birds / Sonia Tidemann and Tim Whiteside -- Tlingit birds : an annotated list with a statistical comparative analysis / Eugene S. Hunn and Thomas F. Thornton -- Raven = Heron in Mayan language prehistory : an ethno-ornithological/linguistic study / Cecil H. Brown -- What's in a bird's name : relationships among ethno-ornithological terms in Nage and other Malayo-Polynesian languages / Gregory Forth -- An alternate reality : Māori spiritual guardianship of New Zealand's native birds / Philip O'B. Lyver and Henrik Moller -- Everyone loves birds : using indigenous knowledge of birds to facilitate conservation in New Guinea / William H. Thomas -- Birds, people and conservation in Kenya / Mercy Njeri Muiruri and Patrick Maundu -- Bird messengers for all seasons : landscapes of knowledge among the Bribri of Costa Rica / Nicole Sault -- The bull of the bog : bittern conservation practice in a western bio-cultural setting / Maan Barua and Paul Jepson -- Towards an Indonesian bird conservation ethos : reflections from a study of bird-keeping in the cities of Java and Bali / Paul Jepson. |
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Subject: | Ethnoornithology Human-animal relationships Birds -- Conservation Birds -- Nomenclature (Popular) |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | GN 476.77 E84 2010 (Text) | 26040003189855 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |