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Fishing, foraging and farming in the Bolivian Amazon : on a local society in transition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ringhofer, Lisa
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; London ; New York : Springer, [2010]
Subjects:
Chimane Indians > Ethnobiology.
Chimane Indians > Social conditions.
Chimane Indians > Social life and customs.
Chimane Indians > Time management.
Economic anthropology > Bolivia > Beni.
Ethnoecology > Bolivia > Beni.
Human ecology > Bolivia > Beni.
Land use > Bolivia > Beni.
Social change > Bolivia > Beni.
Bolivia > Rural conditions.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : setting the stage
  • Sociometabolic transitions and the MEFA toolkit : concepts and methods
  • Exploring an indigenous world in the Bolivian Amazon : the case of the Tsimane'
  • Stocks, flows and land use : the metabolic profile of Campo Bello
  • Time, work, and other functions
  • Comparing local transitions across the developing world
  • Local visions of a global future.