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Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats presents an international and interdisciplinary account of human cultural adaptation to mountainous environments over time. Mountain ecosystems are critical to the wellbeing of sizable populations in Eura...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in human ecology and adaptation ;
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5702-2 |
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Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats presents an international and interdisciplinary account of human cultural adaptation to mountainous environments over time. Mountain ecosystems are critical to the wellbeing of sizable populations in Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. The book presents the evidence on continuity of human cultural adaptation to mountain ecosystems and also on contemporary threats and vulnerabilities caused by intensification in mining, agriculture, and tourism. The essays collected here discuss human responses to key physical and cultural stressors impacting human wellbeing in mountain ecosystems, such as aridity, quality of soils, steep slopes, industrialization and infrastructural change, low productivity, adverse effects of centralized political decision-making, deforestation and erosion, tourism, and the possible effects of climate change. The contributors who are cultural anthropologists, geographers, archaeologists, ecologists, and cultural resource managers and planners all point out that mountain populations cope with the stressors by adopting specific cultural strategies, such as seasonal migrations, integration of pastoral and agricultural production, animal crossbreeding, use of crop varieties, a mixture of communal and household control of land, trade, crop diversity, diversification of activities, and technological innovations and innovative scheduling of productive activities. Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats will be of interest to archaeologists, cultural resource managers, anthropologists, ecologists, climatologists, and geologists because mountainous ecosystems change fast, and cultures disappear and they need to be recorded. Most importantly, cultural responses of mountain populations provide clues for us all in this time of environmental change. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: |
9781461457022 (electronic bk.) 1461457025 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | GF41 |
| CLC: | Q988 |
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Introduction / Presenting the Evidence of Diversity in Mountain Paleo-Landscapes. The Case of the French Alps / A History of Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions in the French Pyrenees Inferred from the Pollen Data / The Pastures of the Be nou Plateau (Bilhe res-en-Ossau), France. One Form of Exploitation of Salt Resources in a Mountain Environment / Archaeological Prospection of the Pyrenean Valleys in the Upper Lavedan, Hautes-Pyre ne es / Mountain Summer Shelters in the Haut Adour Region of the Central French Pyrenees: Examples from the Campan and Lesponne Valleys (Hautes-Pyre ne es) / Landscape Archaeology of the Commons of the Bouleste/Labas Valley, Hautes-Pyre ne es / The Use of GIS and Weights-of-Evidence in the Reconstruction of a Native American Sacred Landscape in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado / Adaptation of Andean Herders to Political and Climatic Changes / Mapuche Resilience and Adaptation to Arid Uplands in NW Patagonia, Argentina / Medicinal Plant Use as an Adaptive Strategy in the Bolivian Andes: Evidence from the Quechua Community of Apillapampa / Keeping all the Parts: Adaptation Amidst Dramatic Change in the Pamir Mountains / From Yaks to Tourists: Sherpa Livelihood Adaptations in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal / The Sources of Ethnic Pride and Social Stability Among the Nuosu (Yi) of Southwest China / Globalization, Environmental Change, and Coping Strategies Among the Ifugao of the Philippine Cordillera Mountains / Culturally Mediated Provision of Ecosystem Services: The AGDAL of Yagour / |