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List of Illustrations | xii | |
List of Tables | xiv | |
Foreword | xvi | |
Acknowledgments | xix | |
1. | Introduction: on the Interdependence of Biological and Cultural Diversity | 1 |
Part 1 | Language, Knowledge, and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Framework | |
2. | On the Meaning and Moral Imperative of Diversity | 53 |
3. | Biodiversity and the Loss of Lineages | 71 |
4. | Why Linguists Need Languages | 82 |
5. | On the Coevolution of Cultural, Linguistic, and Biological Diversity | 95 |
6. | Prospects for the Persistence of "Endemic" Cultural Systems of Traditional Environmental Knowledge: A Zapotec Example | 118 |
7. | Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity | 133 |
8. | Cultural Perceptions of Ecological Interactions: An "Endangered People's" Contribution to the Conservation of Biological and Linguistic Diversity | 145 |
9. | The Vanishing Landscape of the Peten Maya Lowlands: People, Plants, Animals, Places, Words, and Spirits | 157 |
10. | Dimensions of Attrition in Language Death | 175 |
11. | Acculturation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge Loss Among the Piaroa of Venezuela: Demonstration of a Quantitative Method for the Empirical Study of Traditional Ecological Knowledge Change | 190 |
12. | Measuring the Evolution and Devolution of Folk-Biological Knowledge | 212 |
13. | Some Problems of Describing Linguistic and Ecological Knowledge | 228 |
14. | Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: Some Implications for the Language Sciences | 248 |
Part 2 | Biocultural Diversity Persistence and Loss: Case Studies | |
15. | Biodiversity and Loss of Indigenous Languages and Knowledge in South America | 265 |
16. | Aspects and Implications of Ecological Diversity in Forest Societies of the Brazilian Amazon | 282 |
17. | Environment, Culture, and Siriono Plant Names | 298 |
18. | The Endangered Languages of Africa: A Case Study from Botswana | 311 |
19. | Threats to Indigenous Knowledge: A Case Study from Eastern Indonesia | 325 |
20. | On the Value of Ecological Knowledge to the Kalam of Papua New Guinea: an Insider's View | 343 |
21. | Wa Huya Ania AMA Vutti Yo'oriwa--the Wilderness World is Respected Greatly: Truth from the Yoeme Communities of the Sonoran Desert | 358 |
22. | Resource Management in Amazonia: Caboclo and Ribereno Traditions | 364 |
Part 3 | Perpetuating the World's Biocultural Diversity: Agenda for Action | |
23. | Biological and Cultural Diversity: The Inextricable, Linked by Language and Politics | 379 |
24. | Linguistic Human Rights in Education for Language Maintenance | 397 |
25. | Language, Knowledge, and Indigenous Heritage Rights | 412 |
26. | A Tape Documentation Project for Native Brazilian Languages | 433 |
27. | The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity | 446 |
28. | Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: Misguided Myths in the Maya Tropical Forest | 462 |
29. | Biocultural Diversity and Local Power in Mexico: Challenging Globalization | 472 |
30. | Language, Ethnobotanical Knowledge, and Tropical Public Health | 489 |
31. | Indigenous Peoples and the Uses and Abuses of Ecotourism | 503 |
32. | Protectors, Prospectors, and Pirates of Biological Resources | 517 |
Part 4 | A Vision for the Future, and a Plea | |
33. | Possibilities After Progress | 533 |
34. | Silent no More: California Indians Reclaim Their Culture--and They Invite You to Listen | 540 |
Appendix 1. | Code of Ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology (1998) | 547 |
Appendix 2. | Statement of Mission--Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity | 553 |
Contributors | 555 | |
Index | 559 |
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