Darrell A Posey

Biographic Data

ID118622
NAMEDarrell A Posey
GIVEN NAMESDarrell A
FAMILY NAMEPosey
SIGNATUREPOSEY D A
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal do Maranhão
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS86
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Development of the Amazon

    Darrell A PoseyCHAPTERDilemma of Amazonian Development2019

    This chapter seeks to explain the "dilemma" of Amazonia by proposing that systematic study and understanding of the ecological knowledge systems of the Amazon Basin's most ancient inhabitants, the Amerindians, -can help resolve the dilemma. It deals with easily delineated categories of indigenous knowledge that suggest fields of research for Western science. With the extinction of each indigenous group, the world loses millennia of accumulated kn…

  • Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity

    Open AccessJan Salick, William L Brown et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2006Cited by: 1

  • Globalization, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism

    Steven Vertovec, Darrell A PoseyEDITORBOOKGlobalization, globalism,…2004

    In both scientific research and public interest over the past two decades there has been a growing attention to environmental matters. This volume presents the views of a number of leading figures concerning the nature of environmental consciousness and the emergence of connections linking globalization (processes of intensifying social, political, and economic networks), globalism (our sense of the world as a whole), specific environments (such …

  • Commodification of the sacred through intellectual property rights

    Open AccessDarrell A PoseyARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2002

  • Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity

    Darrell Posey, Darrell A PoseyBOOKCultural and Spiritual Values of…2000

    Weaving together philosophical, historical, legal, scientific and personal viewpoints, this book gives a rich sample of the vast web which makes up our cultural, spiritual and social diversity. The volume highlights the central importance of cultural and spiritual values in the appreciation and preservation of all life and argues that these values give us a true reflection of worth. It demonstrates how many cultures see Nature as an extension of …

  • Film reviews

    Andrew Sherratt, D Zeitlyn et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology1995

    Frozen tombs of Siberia The Mystery of the Frozen Tombs of Siberia. Directed by Françoise Lévie; camera, Sacha Wiernik; sound, Sarah Moon Howe; editing, Michèle Maquet; produced by Sofidoc Production. 1994,26 minutes, color and black & white, English narration. Imbalu, a ritual of manhood Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Bagisu of Uganda. A film by Richard Hawkins and Suzette Heald; director: Richard Hawkins; camera: David and Judith MacDougall; …

  • The Ecology of Choice and Symbol

    Darrell A Posey, Reidar GronhaugARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995Cited by: 13

  • Resource Management in Amazonia

    Open AccessRobert B Kent, Robert Β Kent et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1991Cited by: 4

  • Intellectual Property Rights

    Darrell Posey, Darrell A PoseyARTICLEAnthropology Today1990Cited by: 17

  • Ethnoecology as Applied Anthropology in Amazonian Development

    Darrell A Posey, John Frechione et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization1984Cited by: 49References: 13

    Social and ecological devastation in Amazônia necessitates alternative strategies for sustained, ecologically sound development. The study of indigenous ecological knowledge (ethnoecology) is shown to offer the bases for these new strategies. Six categories of folk knowledge are explored: gathered products, game, aquaculture, agriculture, resource units and cosmology. A set of recommendations for systematic ethnoecological research is offered, th…

  • Time, space and the interface of divergent cultures

    Open AccessDarrell A PoseyARTICLERevista de Antropologia1982

  • Linguistics

    Open AccessDarrell Posey, Darrell A PoseyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980

  • Origin, Development and Maintenance of a Louisiana Mixed-Blood Community

    Darrell A PoseyARTICLEEthnohistory1979

    Darrell A. Posey, Origin, Development and Maintenance of a Louisiana Mixed-Blood Community: The Ethnohistory of the Freejacks of the First Ward Settlement, Ethnohistory, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 177-192

  • Entomological Considerations in Southeastern Aboriginal Demography

    Darrell A PoseyARTICLEEthnohistory1976Cited by: 2

    Insects are one of the most important ecological factors affecting man and yet they have been largely ignored in anthropological studies. In the Southeastern U.SA. Amerind groups recognized the importance of insects and adapted their own behavior through a sophisticated knowledge of insect behavior. Insects and insect products were used and traded extensively, and were imbedded in myth and lore, especially that concerning disease. Depletion of Am…