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Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, h

This sensitive examination of the meanings of landscape draws on the author's rich experience with diverse enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that in

Scholars studying the ecology of specific areas often fail to take into account the presence of humans in those environments. People not only are fundamental co

The re-emerging field of ethnoecology offers a promising way to document and analyze human-environment interactions. Case studies by international experts explo