Kayap= Ethnoecology and Culture

Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culturepresents a selection of the late Darrel A. Posey's writings, the result of 25 years of work with the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon Basin. This provocative selection describes the dispersal of the Kayapo sub-groups and explains how useful biological species and natural resource management strategies spread. It also documents the threatened extinction of the Kayap'o, showing how scientists are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.