Overview
- Illustrates the integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in the Americas
- Explores the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions
- Focuses on Indigenous knowledge systems, their transformations, and challenges to their continuity and survival
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Environment and the Knowledge of the Ancients
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Language, Environment, and Well-Being: Contemporary Challenges
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Justyna Olko is Professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw, Poland and director of its Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity. She specializes in Indigenous history, sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, language endangerment and revitalization of ethnic minority and Indigenous languages, multilingualism as well as decolonizing research practices.
Cynthia Radding is Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History and Latin American Studies at The University of North Carolina, USA. She researches the imperial borderlands of the Ibero-American empires, emphasizing the role of indigenous peoples and other colonized groups in shaping those borderlands, transforming their landscapes, and producing colonial societies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living with Nature, Cherishing Language
Book Subtitle: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
Editors: Justyna Olko, Cynthia Radding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38739-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s). 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38738-8Published: 08 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38741-8Published: 08 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38739-5Published: 07 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 410
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Environmental Geography, Cultural Heritage