CHAPTER 2 Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming Plants

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures and Tables ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Editor’s Preface xiii
6. CHAPTER 1 Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives – an Introduction 1
7. PART I CIRCULATIONS: MOBILITY, SUBSISTENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
8. CHAPTER 2 Towards an Understanding of the Huaorani Ways of Knowing and Naming Plants 47
9. CHAPTER 3 The Restless Life of the Nahua: Shaping People and Places in the Peruvian Amazon 69
10. CHAPTER 4 Urban, Rural and In-between: Multi-sited Households Mobility and Resource Management in the Amazon Flood Plain 86
11. CHAPTER 5 Unpicking ‘Community’ in Community Conservation: Implications of Changing Settlement Patterns and Individual Mobility for the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve, Peru 97
12. PART II TRANSFORMATIONS: KNOWLEDGE, IDENTITY, PLACE-MAKING AND THE DOMESTICATION OF NATURE
13. CHAPTER 6 Domestication of Peach Palm (Bactris gasipaes): the Roles of Human Mobility and Migration 117
14. CHAPTER 7 Intermediation, Ethnogenesis and Landscape Transformation at the Intersection of the Andes and the Amazon: the Historical Ecology of the Lecos of Apolo, Bolivia 141
15. CHAPTER 8 The Political Ecology of Ethnic Frontiers and Relations among the Piaroa of the Middle Orinoco 167
16. CHAPTER 9 ‘Ordenar El Pensamiento’: Place-Making and the Moral Management of Resources in a Multi- Ethnic Territory, Amazonas, Colombia 195
17. CHAPTER 10 Plants ‘of the Ancestors’, Plants ‘of the Outsiders’: Ese Eja History, Migration and Medicinal Plants 220
18. CHAPTER 11 Weaving Power: Displacement and the Dynamics of Basketry Knowledge amongst the Kaiabi in the Brazilian Amazon 249
19. CHAPTER 12 Traditions in Transition: African Diaspora Ethnobotany in Lowland South America 275
20. Index 295