Research Catalog

Title

Time and complexity in historical ecology : studies in the neotropical lowlands / edited by William Balée and Clark L. Erickson.

Author

Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology (2002 : Tulane University)

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Balée, William L., 1954-
• Erickson, Clark L.

Description

xii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The historical ecology series

Uniform Title

Historical ecology series.

Subjects

• Human ecology > Latin America > Congresses
• Ethnobiology > Latin America > Congresses
• Rain forest ecology > Latin America > Congresses
• Human ecology > Tropics > Congresses
• Landscape changes > Latin America > Congresses
• Agriculture > Tropics > Congresses
• Land use > Latin America > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Time, complexity, and historical ecology / William Balee and Clark L. Erickson -- 1. The feral forests of the Eastern Peten / David G. Campbell, Anabel Ford, Karen S. Lowell, Jay Walker, Jeffrey K. Lake, Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Andrew Townesmith and Michael Balick -- 2. A neotropical framework for Terra Preta / Elizabeth Graham -- 3. Domesticated food and society in early coastal Peru / Christine A. Hastorf -- 4. Microvertebrate synecology and anthropogenic footprints in the forested neotropics / Peter W. Stahl -- 5. Pre-European forest cultivation in Amazonia / William M. Denevan -- 6. Fruit trees and the transition to food production in Amazonia / Charles R. Clement -- 7. The historical ecology of a complex landscape in Bolivia / Clark L. Erickson and William Balee -- 8. The domesticated landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon / Clark L. Erickson -- 9. Political economy and pre-Columbian landscape transformations in Central Amazonia / Eduardo G. Neves and James B. Petersen -- 10. History, ecology, and alterity : visualizing polity in ancient Amazonia / Michael Heckenberger -- 11. Between the ship and the bulldozer : historical ecology of Guaja subsistence, sociality, and symbolism after 1500 / Loretta A. Cormier -- 12. Landscapes of the past, footprints of the future : historical ecology and the study of contemporary land-use change in the Amazon / Eduardo S. Brondizio.

ISBN

• 0231135629 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231509618 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005049370
• 9780231135627

OCLC

• ocm60644807
• SCSB-5248562

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries