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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History /

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This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in Nor...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Olko, Justyna (Editor), Radding, Cynthia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics.
Anthropological linguistics.
Ethnology.
Human ecology > Study and teaching.
Cultural property.
Linguistic Anthropology.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Environmental Studies.
Cultural Heritage.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Flexible borders, permeable territories and the role of water management in territorial dynamics in Pre-Hispanic and Early Hispanic Peru
  • 3. Ihuan yehhuan tlacuauh tlamauhtiah in ichcapixqueh. "And the shepherds are inspiring great fear". Environment, control of resources and collective agency in colonial and modern Tlaxcala
  • 4. Ñudzahui Custom, Contracts, and Territoriality in Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca
  • 5. The Yoreme creation of itom ania in northwestern Mexico: histories of cultural landscapes
  • 6. Gender Disparities in Guaraní Knowledge, Literacy, and Fashion in the Ecological Borderlands of Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century Paraguay
  • 7. Combining Visions of Well-Being through the Generational Gap: The Views of Tlaxcala Old and Young on Environment, Tradition and Language
  • 8. "Amo kitlapanas tetl!": Heritage language and the defense against fracking in the Huasteca Potosina, Mexico
  • 9.The Interrelation between Language, History and Traditional Ecological Knowledge within the Nahuat-Pipil context of El Salvador
  • 10. Cenotes and placemaking in the Maya world: biocultural landscapes as archival spaces
  • 11. Nakua nukuu ini Ñuu Savi: Nakua jíno, nakua ka'on de nakua sa'on ja kuatyi Koo Yoso. Memory and cultural continuity of the Ñuu Savi People: Ancestral knowledge, language and rituals around Koo Yoso deity
  • 12. Tlaneltoquilli tlen mochihua ica cintli ipan tlalli Chicontepec: tlamantli chicahualiztli ipan tochinanco. Ceremonial practices relating to corn in the region of Chicontepec: local aspects of wellbeing. .

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