Indigenous peoples and the future of Amazonia: an ecological anthropology of an endangered world/

Other Authors: Sponsel, Leslie E.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1995
Series:Arizona studies in human ecology
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Table of 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 Balee
  • 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 Chicchon
  • 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.