[PDF] Rattans Canes eBook

Author : Dennis Victor Johnson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251050958

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This volume contains a glossary on terms and terminologies used in the rattan sector. The glossary is structured according to the following major sections: rattan resources (biology, management, plantations, harvesting); rattan as a raw material (transport, storage, grading and post-harvest handling, rattan trade); rattan processing (for local artisanal uses; for industrial level furniture manufacturing); and rattan trade in raw, furniture and other products. In order to give special emphasis to the emerging rattan sector in Africa, a separate compilation of terms specifically focusing on those used in Africa is added.

Author : Stephen F. Siebert
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824860381

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Rattan is the common name for a diverse group of climbing palms found throughout Old World tropical forests. For centuries people have used them for binding, basketry, house construction, food, and numerous other non-market purposes; more recently the canes of some species have been gathered for the multi-billion-dollar furniture, handicraft, and mat-making industries. Thus rattan continues to be vital to the culture and economic well being of millions of cane collectors, laborers, and artisans throughout tropical Asia and Africa. The Nature and Culture of Rattan explores this valuable forest product, the tropical forests on which it depends, and the societies that flourish by using and managing these remarkable plants. The Nature and Culture of Rattan provides a distinctive and engaging review of rattan and the people whose lives are centered on it. It examines rattan use, biology, human culture, and challenges in tropical field research and conservation through the knowledge of cane workers in three Southeast Asian forest villages where the author lived over a twenty-five-year period. He effectively challenges commonly held views of "slash and burn" farming, rainforest destruction, and population increase while underscoring the myriad forces involved in individual decision-making and social and environmental change. Personal stories and experiences are integrated with scientific information in a manner that will attract nonspecialists as well as students and researchers. The Nature and Culture of Rattan will be a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate courses in ecology, anthropology, rural sociology and development, forestry, and natural resource management. A website (www.cfc.umt.edu/rattan) includes additional photographs, suggested reading, and discussion topics.

Author : C. Renuka
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Rattan palms
ISBN :

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Author : Jim Widess
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781579906139

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Rounds out this essential resource for crafters and collectors alike. Book jacket.