Fig Trees and Humans

Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures

Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Martine Hossaert-McKey (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

170 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-266-8 (ISBN)

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Humans and figs form hybrid communities within the context of anthropogenic landscapes, supported by biocultural mutualisms driven by traits of Ficus species and people’s imagination and practices, and where humans also positively influence Ficus species ecology. Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region. It demonstrates a high level of convergence of material and symbolic uses of human-fig interactions that affect various aspects of human culture, as well as the ecology of wild or cultivated Ficus species.

Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas is Director of Research at the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE), CNRS, France. She coordinates interdisciplinary research that integrates anthropological and ecological studies.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. Human-Tree Interaction: What about Ficus Species?

Chapter 2. The Biology of Ficus Species: An Exceptional History of Co-Evolution

Chapter 3. The Civilising Role of Ficus Species

Chapter 4. Ficus in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Nurturing Ficus Ecologies

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-266-2 / 1805392662
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-266-8 / 9781805392668
Zustand	Neuware