Indigenous Revival, Biocultural Heritage and Sacred Sites Conservation

• Sarmiento, F.O. (In Preparation). Ruins Reified: Andean Sacred Mountains revisited. Eco-Mont: The Journal of Mountain Protected Areas Research. Innsbruck. Austria.

  • Chávez Velásquez C.R., Sinaluisa Pilco, A.M.,  Lema Palaquibay,L.F.,  Velasteguí Arévalo, P.F Ureña Moreno, J.F., Yépez Noboa, A.M., Latimer, J.B., Sarmiento, F.O. 2024.  The heritagescape of Kichwa of Nizag people built upon traditional wild plant usage along a Chimborazo variant of the Andean Road System or Qhapac Ñan. Geographies 2024, 4, 537–562.  https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies4030029
  • Ibarra, J.T. et al. (2024). Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with indigenous and local worldviews. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1ha0Q_3sj9iRIV
  • Sarmiento, F.O., Inaba, N., Iida, Y., Yoshida, M. 2023. Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage. Geographies, 3(1): 19-39. 
  • Sarmiento, F.O. and C. Cotacachi.  2019.  Framing Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Andes:  Utawallu runakuna as Sentinels of Values for Biocultural Heritage Conservation. Satoyama Review 5(1): 25-40.
  • Sarmiento, F.O. & S. Hitchner (Editors). 2019. Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas. Series Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Berghahn Books, New York. Paperback edition.
  • Sarmiento, F.O.  2018.  Sacred foods of Ecuador: The Utawallu runakuna people of the Tropical Andes. Pp.103-114. In: Xu, J., A. Stevenson and S. Yufang (editors). Mountain Futures: Inspiration and Innovation from the World’s Highlands. World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF).
  • González, J.A. and F.O. Sarmiento. 2018.  Quinoa Uncovered: The sacred food of the Andes.  Pp- 99-102. In: Xu, J., A. Stevenson and S. Yufang (editors). Mountain Futures: Inspiration and Innovation from the World’s Highlands. World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF).
  • Sarmiento, F.O. & S. Hitchner (Editors). 2017. Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas. Series Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Berghahn Books, New York. Hardcover edition.
  • Sarmiento, F.O. 2015. On the Antlers of a Trilemma: Rediscovering Andean Sacred Sites. Chapter 5. In: Rozzi, R., S.T.A. Pickett, J. B. Callicot, F. S. T. Chapin III, M.E. Power and J.J. Armesto (editors). Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice. New York: Springer.
  • Sarmiento, F.O. 2013. Ruinas Reificadas: El revivir indígena, los paisajes culturales y la conservación de sitios sagrados. Revista Parques (1): 1-14.
  • Sarmiento, F.O. 2013. Paisaje Cultural Patrimonial del Ecuador: Una Categoría de Manejo Territorial. pp. 31-43. In: Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio (Editor). Paisajes Culturales: Reflexiones Conceptuales y Metodológicas. Memorias del I Encuentro de Expertos. Cuenca, Ecuador.
  • Carter, L.A. & F.O. Sarmiento, 2011. Cotacacheños and Otavaleños: Local Perceptions of Sacred Sites for Farmscape Conservation in Highland Ecuador. Journal of Human Ecology 35(1): 61-70.
  • Sarmiento, F.O., C. Cotacachi & L.E. Carter, 2008. Sacred Imbakucha: Intangibles in the conservation of cultural landscapes in Ecuador. J. M. Mallarach (Ed). Sacred and Spiritual Values of Protected Landscapes. Volume II. Values of Protected Landscapes Series. IUCN-GTZ.
  • Sarmiento, F.O., G. Rodríguez & A. Argumedo., 2005. Cultural landscapes of the Andes: Indigenous and colono culture, traditional knowledge and ethno-ecological heritage. Pp: 143-156. In: Brown, J., N. Mitchel & M. Beresford (editors). The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture and Community. World Conservation Union IUCN: Gland and Cambridge: 262pp.
  • Sarmiento, F.O. , 2003. Protected landscapes in the Andean context: worshiping the sacred in nature and culture. Pp.: 239-249. In: Harmon, D. & . A. Putney (editors). The full value of Parks. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Lanham, MA.: 347 pp.
  • Sarmiento, F.O., 2001. Worshiping the sacred in nature and culture in protected landscapes of the Andes. Pp. 63-67. In: UNESCO thematic expert meeting on Asia-Pacific Sacred Mountains. World Cultural Center, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, Wakayama Prefecture Government. Wakayama City: 310pp.
  • Sarmiento, F.O., G. Rodríguez, M. Torres, A. Argumedo, M. Muñoz & J. Rodríguez., 2000. Andean stewardship: Tradition linking nature and culture in protected landscapes of the Andes. The George Wright Forum, 17(1):55-69.
  • Sarmiento, F. & T. Wachs., 2000. Special Issue on cultural landscapes. Mountain Research and Development, 20(3).