Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kayapó sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the Kayapó are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for scientists to just do 'good science'. They are are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.

Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Posey, Darrell A.

Anthropology

Routledge

Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)

<p>Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the Declaration of Belem: the first instance of an international scientific organisation recognizing an obligation to compensate native peoples for use of their knowledge and biological resources. In 1993, Posey received the United Nations Global 500 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service to the Environment. Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics presents seventeen of his articles on the topics of environment, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights. Demonstrating his belief in the validity of indigenous knowledge systems, and his insistence that indigenous rights must be recognised and protected, it is an ideal introduction to his thought and work.</p>

Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics: A Darrell Posey Reader (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)

Reference

<p>For indigenous peoples’ groups, activists and policymakers in intellectual property, and all those concerned with the preservation of our planet’s biological and cultural diversity, Beyond Intellectual Property provides an invaluable and eye-opening look into one of the most provocative and explosive issues of this century and likely the next: the patenting of life.</p>

Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Business & Money

DUTFIELD, GRAHAM

Economics

IDRC Books

Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies

New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept

Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture

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