TY - JOUR
KW - Peru
KW - Native Americans
KW - swiddens
KW - fallow
KW - multistory
KW - ethnobotany
AU - William M. Denevan
AU - John M. Treacy
AU - Janis B. Alcorn
AU - Christine Padoch
AU - Julie Sloan Denslow
AU - Salvadore Flores Paitán
AB - The purpose of this paper is to examine the swidden fallows of an Amazon native group, the Bora of eastern Peru, with the objective of demonstrating how fields are gradually abandoned. This contrasts with most studies of shifting cultivation which focus on why fields are abandoned, and which present a sharp distinction between the field (swidden) and the abandoned field (fallow). For the Bora there is no clear transition between swidden and fallow, but rather a continuum from a swidden dominated by cultivated plants to an old fallow composed entirely of natural vegetation. Thirty-five years or more may be required before the latter condition prevails. Abandonment is not a moment in time but rather a process over time. (author)
AN - 89-00318; 91-01916
BT - Interciencia
C6 - 0378-1844
DA - 11/1984
DB - Google Scholar
IS - 6
LA - English
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to examine the swidden fallows of an Amazon native group, the Bora of eastern Peru, with the objective of demonstrating how fields are gradually abandoned. This contrasts with most studies of shifting cultivation which focus on why fields are abandoned, and which present a sharp distinction between the field (swidden) and the abandoned field (fallow). For the Bora there is no clear transition between swidden and fallow, but rather a continuum from a swidden dominated by cultivated plants to an old fallow composed entirely of natural vegetation. Thirty-five years or more may be required before the latter condition prevails. Abandonment is not a moment in time but rather a process over time. (author)
PY - 1984
SP - 346
EP - 357
ST - Indigenous agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon
T2 - Interciencia
TI - Indigenous agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon: Bora Indian management of swidden fallows
VL - 9
ER -