TY - JOUR
KW - Andes
KW - Aveiro [Portugal]
KW - Paramos
KW - Portugal
KW - biocultural landscape
KW - Biodiversity
KW - biogeography
KW - critical biogeography
KW - cultural heritage
KW - cultural landscape
KW - environmental change
KW - ethnobiology
KW - intangible heritage
KW - montology
KW - páramo
AU - Fausto Sarmiento
AU - J. Tomas Ibarra
AU - Antonia Barreau
AU - J. Cristobal Pizarro
AU - Ricardo Rozzi
AU - Juan Gonzalez
AU - Larry Frolich
AB - More than most other landforms, mountains have been at the vanguard of geographical inquiry. Whether promontories, cultural works on slopes, or even metaphorical/spiritual heights, mountain research informs current narratives of global environmental change. We review how montology shifts geographic paradigms via the novel approach of critical biogeography in the Andes. We use it to bridge nature and society through indigenous heritage, local biodiversity conservation narratives, and vernacular nature–culture hybrids of biocultural landscapes (BCLs), focusing on how socioecological systems (SES) enlighten scientific query in the Andes. In our Andean study cases, integrated critical frameworks guide the understanding of BCLs as the product of long-term human–environment interactions. With situated exemplars from place naming, wild edible plants, medicinal plants, sacred trees, foodstuffs, ritualistic plants, and floral and faunal causation, we convey the need for cognition of mountains as BCLs in the Anthropocene. We conclude that applied montology allows for a multi-method approach with the four Cs of critical biogeography, a model that engages forward-looking geographers and interdisciplinary Andeanists in assessments for sustainable development of fragile BCLs in the Andes.
BT - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2016.1260438
LA - English
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
N2 - More than most other landforms, mountains have been at the vanguard of geographical inquiry. Whether promontories, cultural works on slopes, or even metaphorical/spiritual heights, mountain research informs current narratives of global environmental change. We review how montology shifts geographic paradigms via the novel approach of critical biogeography in the Andes. We use it to bridge nature and society through indigenous heritage, local biodiversity conservation narratives, and vernacular nature–culture hybrids of biocultural landscapes (BCLs), focusing on how socioecological systems (SES) enlighten scientific query in the Andes. In our Andean study cases, integrated critical frameworks guide the understanding of BCLs as the product of long-term human–environment interactions. With situated exemplars from place naming, wild edible plants, medicinal plants, sacred trees, foodstuffs, ritualistic plants, and floral and faunal causation, we convey the need for cognition of mountains as BCLs in the Anthropocene. We conclude that applied montology allows for a multi-method approach with the four Cs of critical biogeography, a model that engages forward-looking geographers and interdisciplinary Andeanists in assessments for sustainable development of fragile BCLs in the Andes.
PY - 2017
SP - 416
EP - 428
T2 - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
TI - Applied Montology Using Critical Biogeography in the Andes
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85009262066&doi=10.1080%2f24694452.2016.1260438&partnerID=40&md5=bd505d7f9d411ab12a150d3bc397d593
VL - 107
SN - 24694452 (ISSN)
ER -