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- catalog abstract "Virginia Nazarea now makes a case for preserving cultural memory along with biodiversity. Interweaving a wealth of ecological and cognitive data with oral history, Nazarea details a "memory banking" protocol for collecting and conserving cultural information to complement the genetic, agronomic, and biochemical characterization of important crops. She shows that memory banking offers significant benefits for local populations - not only the preservation of traditional knowledge but also the maintenance of alternatives to large-scale agricultural development and commercialization. She also compares alternative forms of germplasm conservation conducted by a male-dominated hierarchy with those of an informal network of migrant women. Cultural Memory and Biodiversity establishes valuable guidelines for people who aspire to support community-based in situ conservation of local varieties. Perhaps more important, it shows that the traditional methods of local farmers are often as important as the "advanced" methods encouraged by advocates of modernization.".
- catalog contributor b10797145.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.".
- catalog description "Of memories and varieties : complementation between cultural and genetic diversity -- Memory banking protocol : guidelines toward systematic documentation -- Modernization and the distribution of indigenous knowledge -- In defense of fuzziness : the value of multiple criteria -- Threatened pockets of memories : diversity at the margins -- Cultural alternatives in in situ germplasm conservation -- Gene-rich but technology-poor? the fallacy of the equation.".
- catalog description "Virginia Nazarea now makes a case for preserving cultural memory along with biodiversity. Interweaving a wealth of ecological and cognitive data with oral history, Nazarea details a "memory banking" protocol for collecting and conserving cultural information to complement the genetic, agronomic, and biochemical characterization of important crops. She shows that memory banking offers significant benefits for local populations - not only the preservation of traditional knowledge but also the maintenance of alternatives to large-scale agricultural development and commercialization. She also compares alternative forms of germplasm conservation conducted by a male-dominated hierarchy with those of an informal network of migrant women. Cultural Memory and Biodiversity establishes valuable guidelines for people who aspire to support community-based in situ conservation of local varieties. Perhaps more important, it shows that the traditional methods of local farmers are often as important as the "advanced" methods encouraged by advocates of modernization.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 189 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cultural memory and biodiversity.".
- catalog identifier "0816516812 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cultural memory and biodiversity.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tucson : University of Arizona Press,".
- catalog relation "Cultural memory and biodiversity.".
- catalog subject "306.4/5 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnobiology.".
- catalog subject "GN476 .N39 1998".
- catalog subject "Gene banks, Plant.".
- catalog subject "Germplasm resources, Plant Collection and preservation.".
- catalog subject "Germplasm resources, Plant.".
- catalog subject "Human ecology.".
- catalog subject "Soil seed banks.".
- catalog subject "Traditional farming.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Of memories and varieties : complementation between cultural and genetic diversity -- Memory banking protocol : guidelines toward systematic documentation -- Modernization and the distribution of indigenous knowledge -- In defense of fuzziness : the value of multiple criteria -- Threatened pockets of memories : diversity at the margins -- Cultural alternatives in in situ germplasm conservation -- Gene-rich but technology-poor? the fallacy of the equation.".
- catalog title "Cultural memory and biodiversity / Virginia D. Nazarea.".
- catalog type "text".