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Fresh banana leaves : healing Indigenous landscapes through Indigenous science

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2022

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Title:	Fresh banana leaves : healing Indigenous landscapes through Indigenous science
Author:	Hernandez, Jessica, 1990- author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	Huichin, unceded Ohlone land aka Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2022] ©2022
Description:	260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:	"An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why Western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, historical overviews, and stories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects:	Traditional ecological knowledge. Ethnoecology. Women and the environment -- Latin America. Indian women -- Agriculture -- Latin America. Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- Latin America. Environmental protection -- Latin America. Human ecology -- Latin America. Ecofeminism -- Latin America.
Contents:	Indigenous teaching: nature protects you as long as you protect nature -- Ecocolonialism of Indigenous landscapes -- Birth of Western conservation -- Indigenous science: Indigenous stewardship and management of lands -- Ecowars: seeking environmental justice -- Tierra Madre: Indigenous women and ecofeminism -- Ancestral foods: cooking with fresh banana leaves -- Indigenizing conservation: healing Indigenous landscapes.
ISBN	9781623176051

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