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Title:

Indigenous peoples and the future of Amazonia : an ecological anthropology of an endangered world / edited by Leslie E. Sponsel.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

ix, 312 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--Amazon River Region.
Ethnology--Amazon River Region--Methodology.
Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Social conditions.
Biotic communities--Amazon River Region.
Biological diversity--Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region--Environmental conditions.

Other Authors:

Sponsel, Leslie E. (Leslie Elmer), 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Judging the future by the past : the impact of environmental instability on prehistoric Amazonian populations / Betty J. Meggers -- The history of ecological interpretations of Amazonia : does Roosevelt have it right? / Robert L. Carneiro -- Disaggregating Amazonia : a strategy for understanding biological and cultural diversity / Emilio F. Moran -- Historical ecology of Amazonia / William Balée -- Yanomami of Venezuela : foragers or farmers, which came first? / Kenneth Good -- Small is adaptive : nutritional anthropometry of native Amazonians / Rebecca Holmes -- A closer look at the nutritional implications of bitter Cassava use / Darna L. Dufour -- Epidemiological factors and human adaptation in Amazonia / Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Jr. -- Changes in Machiguenga quality of life / Michael Baksh -- Neotropical foraging adaptations and the effects of acculturation on sustainable resource use : the Yuqui of lowland Bolivia / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Faunal resource use by the chimane of eastern Bolivia : policy notes on a biosphere reserve / Avecita Chicchón -- Sustainability in resource rights and conservation : the case of an Awa biosphere reserve in Colombia and Ecuador / Janet M. Chernela -- Relationships among the worldsystem, indigenous peoples, and ecological anthropology in the endangered Amazon / Leslie E. Sponsel.

Series:

Arizona studies in human ecology.

ISBN:

9780816514588 (acid-free paper)
0816514585 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31291737

LCCN:

94039431

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

GIPC251 -- De Soto Public Library (De Soto)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)