Fishing, foraging and farming in the Bolivian Amazon
Subtitle: on a local society in transition
By: Lisa Ringhofer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789048134861; 9789048134878
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnobiology; Land use; Chimane Indians; Social change; Time management; Economic anthropology; Human ecology
Notes: Expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : setting the stage; title: Sociometabolic transitions and the MEFA toolkit : concepts and methods; title: Exploring an indigenous world in the Bolivian Amazon : the case of the Tsimane'; title: Stocks, flows and land use : the metabolic profile of Campo Bello; title: Time, work, and other functions; title: Comparing local transitions across the developing world; title: Local visions of a global future.