Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]

Guillet, David; Godoy, Ricardo; Guksch, Christian E.; Kawakita, Jiro; Love, Thomas; Matter, Max; Orlove, Benjamín S.

doi:10.1086/203061

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“…Similar interest in the vertical variegation of Andean resources-and, hearkening back to Murra, their complementarity-is evident in subsequent work (Aldenderfer 1993;Dollfus 1982;Hastings 1987;Masuda et al 1985;Shimada 1987;Stanish 1989). Both archaeological and ethnographic research has attended to what is distinctive about traditional human-environment interactions in the Andes (Brush 1977(Brush , 1982Mitchell and Guillet 1994;Onuki 1982) as well as linking them to research on human occupation of high-altitude environments generally (Brush 1976;Guillet 1983;Winterhalder and Thomas 1978). Focus on subsistence should not, however, be equated with attention only to foraging societies.…”

Section: Structuring Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Landscape and Environment: Insights from the Prehispanic Central Andes

Contreras

2010

J Archaeol Res

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Attention to human-environment relationships in the central Andes has a long history. Although the area is not a neat microcosm of the globe, wholly representative of worldwide trends in the archaeology of human-environment interactions, it has been the site of both seminal investigations in archaeology and a substantial body of recent work that investigates themes of broad archaeological relevance. Specifically, central Andean environments have been variously conceived as structuring, modified, and sacred. These approaches to some extent reflect broad trends in archaeology, while also suggesting directions in which the archaeology of human-environment interactions is moving and highlighting archaeology's relevance to discussions of contemporary human-environment interactions. This article characterizes concepts that are key for describing central Andean environments and considers the ways in which the particular ecology of the central Andes has informed archaeological research in the region. The example of the central Andes highlights the importance of understanding environments as dynamic, considering both geomorphic and anthropogenic contributors to that dynamism, and examining both ecological (''environment'') and ideological (''landscape'') implications of archaeological landscapes.

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Section: Structuring Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Landscape and Environment: Insights from the Prehispanic Central Andes

Contreras

2010

J Archaeol Res

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“…Netting (1990) later acknowledged that various outside inputs and interdependencies had in fact sustained the system of Törbel at its points of weakness, and he eventually abandoned the singular "adaptationist" model of the vertically integrated farm in acknowledgement of the diversity of Alpine space. Indeed the "cultural ecology of mountains" (Guillet et al 1983) suggests a multitude of forms of social organization and cultivation with no universal mode of adaptation even in the case of the common summer pastures. Thus, Netting's (1990) early characterization of Törbel as the "island in the sky," a community having reached a final stasis, frozen in time and space, is untenable.…”

Section: From Closed To Open Systems: Bridging Cultural Historical Amentioning

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Swiss Alpine Farmers and their Resilience to Socioecological Change

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Thornton

2011

Hum Ecol

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“…Stress umgehen kann, hängt von der Anpassungsfähigkeit ab, wobei hierunter nicht die kurzfristige Reaktion im Sinne einer Kapazität zur kurzfristigen Bewälti-gung (coping capacity) verstanden wird, sondern das mittelbis langfristige, der zeitlichen Dimension des Nachhaltigkeitsgedankens (siehe unten) entsprechende Umstellen auf einen neuen, mittelfristig stabilen Systemzustand (Smit et al, 2001;Brooks et al, 2005;Gallopín 2006 (Guillet et al, 1983). Im Klimawandelkontext wird diese Art der Anpassung als autonome Anpassung bezeichnet.…”

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