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Modern Ticuna swidden-fallow management in the Colombian Amazon: ecologically integrating market strategies and subsistence-driven economies
Human ecology • 23 (3) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 335-356
By: Hammond, D. S. (David Scott), Dolman, P. M., Watkinson, A. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the ways the Ticuna of Colombia adaptively transformed their traditional swidden-fallow land use practice to benefit from emerging market opportunities in timber and forest products. It argues that a shift from subsistence-based to maket-directed use of renewable natural resources may lower the ecological and economic stablity of Ticuna society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Land use
- Environmental quality
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Cultural identity and pride
- External relations
- Research and development
- Forest products
- Buying and selling
- Production and supply
- Flora
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ticuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ecologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1990-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1990-1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern Amazonas department, Colombia
- NotesAdditional notes
- D. S. Hammond, P. M. Dolman, and A. R. Watkinson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-356)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72623826
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tucuna Indians