Amazonie : un jardin sauvage ou une forêt domestiquée, essai d'écologie historique
AMAZÔNIA - Indigenous creations and futures
Description
The Amazon fascinates us, both because of its gigantic size and its supposedly untamed nature. However, it is the millennia-long impact of humans on this forest that is truly astonishing. Humans have transformed the vegetation cover by promoting plant associations, created fertile soils called 'terra preta' and built terraces that have changed the landscape.
The author, a researcher who has been working in the Amazon for 30 years, offers a completely new perspective on the ancient interaction between humans and the environment in the world's largest tropical forest, drawing on disciplines as diverse as archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, ecology, botany and pedology.
Product information
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Technical specification
Author : Stéphen Rostain
Publisher : Actes Sud
- Dimensions
- 20,5 cm x 14 cm
- Number of Pages
- 264
- EAN
- 9782330179465