Forest dwellers, forest protectors
Subtitle: indigenous models for international development
By: Richard Reed.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780205628117
Subjects: Guarani Indians -- Land tenure; Guarani Indians -- Agriculture; Guarani Indians -- Social conditions; Sustainable development -- Paraguay; Rain forest ecology -- Paraguay
Description: "The ethnographies in the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr., of Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide. Each title builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture. Paperback and brief, each ethnography is written in a clear, accessible style for both students and the general reader." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Guaraní of the forest; title: Guaraní demographics; title: Geography; title: History; title: Lessons from the Guaraní; title: Theoretical concepts; title: Going into the field; title: Fieldwork methods; title: Overview of the book; title: Guaraní social organization; title: Kinship; title: Guaraní religion; title: Guaraní leadership; title: Guaraní economics; title: Guaraní production; title: Tropical ecosystems; title: Indigenous knowledge; title: Guaraní agroforestry; title: Agroforestry as adaption; title: Gender and the division of labor; title: Production and Guaraní autonomy; title: Guaraní consumption; title: Contemporary development and Guaraní communities; title: Economic development or political expediency?; title: Economic development or ecological destruction?; title: Destabilizing Guaraní society; title: Dislocating Guaraní communities; title: Guaraní society and assistance programs; title: An indigenous model for sustainable development; title: Applying the indigenous model for resource use; title: Economics as if people mattered.