Description - Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture by Darrell A. Posey
'In the Kayapo village of Gorotoire [Darrell Posey] encountered a thriving and complex ancient tribal culture, whose rituals were intimately linked to the forest and the cosmos. His research became far more than a piece of fieldwork, as he learnt the Kayapo language and came to know the sophisticated understanding of the lands that supported them.' - Darrell Posey's Obituary, The Times , 31 March 2000 Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapo Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's most famous indigenous peoples. the Kayap'o originated from one village, Pyka-to-ti, or the 'Beautiful Village'. However, the modern Kayap'o live in several dozen villages scattered over nearly four million hectares that encompass a vast diversity of ecological systems linking the lowland Amazon Basin with the Planalto of central Brazil. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kayapo sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread.
Detailed accounts of the permanent and nomadic agricultural systems, past and present, as well as of the regional ecology provide a rich and essential record for future study and environmental management. However the Kayapo are threatened with extinction like many inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for scientists to just 'do good science'. They are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.
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