Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
Will be published approx. on 15. July 2026
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Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-80758-053-7 (ISBN)
Description
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.
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"Henfrey offers a complex and creative way to rethink the climate crisis, with a sharp critique of dominant, Western shaped approaches, emerging from his ethnographic material, and guided by a complicated and nuanced theoretical framework... Overall, this book provides a new way to explore our environmental crisis and fundamentally rethink [our] understanding of, characterization of and engagement with our natural environment." * AnthroposMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 6 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80758-053-7 (9781807580537)
DOI
10.3167/9781785339882
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Thomas Henfrey
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
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Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. His previous publications include Wapishana Ethnoecology, Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation and the edited volume Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: EDGES
Chapter 1. Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Chapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral Ecology
Chapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 5. Babylon and the 'Crisis of Modernity'.
PART II: FRINGES
Chapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence
Chapter 7. A Plural Reality
Chapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep South
Chapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence
Chapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence
PART III: FRONTIERS
Chapter 11. Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies
Chapter 12. Cultural Edges and Frontiers
Conclusion
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: EDGES
Chapter 1. Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Chapter 2. Integral Theory and Integral Ecology
Chapter 3. Integral Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 4. Steps to an Integral Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 5. Babylon and the 'Crisis of Modernity'.
PART II: FRINGES
Chapter 6. Overview of Wapishana Settlement and Subsistence
Chapter 7. A Plural Reality
Chapter 8. Panarchy in the Deep South
Chapter 9. Composite Epistemology in Wapishana Subsistence
Chapter 10. An Integral Ecology of Wapishana Subsistence
PART III: FRONTIERS
Chapter 11. Traditional and Babylonian Ecologies
Chapter 12. Cultural Edges and Frontiers
Conclusion
References
Index