TY - JOUR
KW - ecology
KW - environmental management
KW - rainforests
KW - resource management
KW - Huastec
KW - anthropology/archaeometry
KW - sociology
KW - domestication
KW - tropical agroecosystem
AU - Janis B. Alcorn
AB - The Huastec have interacted with elements of a diverse flora in northeastern Mexico for 30 centuries. A Huastec plant-management model is derived from patterns reflected in all anthropogenic vegetation zones, from the dooryard to the forest, and used to discuss the possible effects of human activities upon the prehistoric rain forest. Huastec plant management is discussed from an analytical perspective which views plant management as resulting from the integration of two types of plant manipulation: the manipulation of vegetation en masse and the manipulation of individual plants. Decisions about plant manipulation reflect a concern for minimal labor investment to place the resource at hand. Noncrop plant manipulation practices potentially influence the evolution of individual plants and plant communities primarily by affecting species' distribution and population parameters. Since the impact of plant-management practices clearly goes beyond domestication, ways of evaluating such practices in order to expand our understanding of ethnobotanical interactions and their impact are suggested.
AN - 89-00291
BT - Human Ecology
C1 - Hum Ecol
C6 - 0300-7839, 1572-9915
DA - 12/1981
DB - link.springer.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
DO - 10.1007/BF01418729
IS - 4
LA - English
N2 - The Huastec have interacted with elements of a diverse flora in northeastern Mexico for 30 centuries. A Huastec plant-management model is derived from patterns reflected in all anthropogenic vegetation zones, from the dooryard to the forest, and used to discuss the possible effects of human activities upon the prehistoric rain forest. Huastec plant management is discussed from an analytical perspective which views plant management as resulting from the integration of two types of plant manipulation: the manipulation of vegetation en masse and the manipulation of individual plants. Decisions about plant manipulation reflect a concern for minimal labor investment to place the resource at hand. Noncrop plant manipulation practices potentially influence the evolution of individual plants and plant communities primarily by affecting species' distribution and population parameters. Since the impact of plant-management practices clearly goes beyond domestication, ways of evaluating such practices in order to expand our understanding of ethnobotanical interactions and their impact are suggested.
PY - 1981
SP - 395
EP - 417
ST - Huastec noncrop resource management
T2 - Human Ecology
TI - Huastec noncrop resource management: Implications for prehistoric rain forest management
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418729
VL - 9
ER -