{"product_id":"sowing-the-forest-a-historical-ecology-of-people-and-their-landscapes-hardback-9780817321574","title":"Sowing the Forest; A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes (Hardback) 9780817321574","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSowing the Forest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Balée (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817321574\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages, 19 b\u0026amp;w figures, 2 maps, 24 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.4 x 2.7 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSowing the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is impressive in its interdisciplinarity, bringing together extensive original work involving ethnography, botany, and linguistics, as well as engaging with other disciplines. It makes interesting and important contributions on multiple levels. Few other monographs of this nature are as wide-ranging.\"—Patience Epps, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eUpper Rio Negro: Cultural and Linguistic Interaction in Northwestern Amazonia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William BalÉe is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin. His new collection, Sowing the Forest, is a companion volume to the award-winning \u003ci\u003eCultural Forests of the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 2013. \u003ci\u003eSowing the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e engages in depth with how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests, making the landscapes of palm forests and other kinds of forests, and how these and related forests have fed back into the vocabulary and behavior of current indigenous occupants of the remotest parts of the vast hinterlands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, “Substrate of Intentionality,” comprises chapters on historical ecology, indigenous palm forests, plant names in Amazonia, the origins of the Amazonian plantain, and the unknown “Dark Earth people” of thousands of years ago and their landscaping. Together these chapters illustrate the phenomenon of feedback between culture and environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In part 2, “Scope of Transformation,” BalÉe lays out his theory of landscape transformation, which he divides into two rubrics—primary landscape transformation and secondary landscape transformation—and for which he provides examples and various specific effects. One chapter compares environmental and social interrelationships in an Orang Asli group in Malaysia and the Ka’apor people of eastern Amazonian Brazil, and another chapter covers loss of language and culture in the Bolivian Amazon. A final chapter addresses the controversial topic of monumentality in the rainforest. BalÉe concludes by emphasizing the common thread in Amazonian historical ecology: the long-term phenomenon of encouraging diversity for its own sake, not just for economic reasons.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734618698008,"sku":"9780817321574","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sowing-the-forest-a-historical-ecology-of-people-and-their-landscapes-hardback-9780817321574","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}