essay
Nutrition in the northwest Amazon: household dietary intake and time-energy expenditure
Adaptive responses of native Amazonians • New York • Published In 1983 • Pages: 329-355
By: Dufour, Darna L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay presents data on the food intake of Tatuyo Indians living in the village of Yapú (in the headwaters of the Papurí River), as well as the time and effort expended to maintain their traditional diet. In this article, Dufour attempts to show '…that (1) food intake at the household level appears to be adequate in calories and proteins, although protein intake can fluctuate widely; (2) because there is little tendency to store foods, the adequacy of the diet depends on daily procurement activities; and (3) the time and energy devoted to food acquisition is relatively high, and is a direct reflection of food resource availabiltiy and processing' (p. 330).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Nutrition
- Food quest
- Diet
- Labor and leisure
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tukano
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- November 1976-April 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tatuyo Indians; village of Yapú, Papurí; River region, Colombian Vaupés
- NotesAdditional notes
- Darna L. Dufour
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82019399
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tukano Indians