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Culture summaryessay 2001 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a culture summary of the Shipibo of Peru....Time allocation among the Shipibo of Nuevo EdenBook 1988 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This monograph provides a wide range of ethnographic information in conjunction with time allocation data for Shipibo Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. The primary focus of this work, however, is on Nuevo Eden, a village of 342 inhabitants located near...Shipibo food categorization and preferencearticle 1986 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This paper examines the Shipibo conceptualization of foods and their ideas about what constitutes an acceptable diet. Statistical analysis of Shipibo food preferences independently corroborates the Shipibo ethno-classification of foods, collected fro...The scientific basis for Shipibo soil classification and land usearticle 1989 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Since the Shipibo began cash cropping rice, their land use patterns have changed with proportionately less utilization of soft sandy soils, which are best for staple Musa production, and greater use of harder clayey soils, which are more suitable for...Time allocation and meat procurement among the Shipibo Indians of eastern Peruarticle 1981 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
It is argued that the Shipibo Indians follow a meat-procurement strategy that (1) takes into account seasonally variable exploitation costs of fishing and hunting, and (2) helps them satisfy their nutritional requirements for meat in a way which mini...The cultural ecology of dietary change accompanying changing activity patterns among the Shipiboarticle 1986 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This paper examines the relationship between cash cropping, wild meat procurement (e.g., hunting and fishing), and diet among the Shipibo Indians. Comparative ethnographic data are used to derive key concepts and principles needed to develop a formal...Labor specialization and the formation of markets for food in a Shipibo subsistance economyarticle 1992 • Behrens, Clifford A.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This paper examines the relationship between food production and exchange, and the manner in which this relationship is affected by a shift from a subsistence to a market-oriented economy. Analysis of Shipibo production and exchange data reveals that...