TY - SER KW - Indians of South America KW - human ecology KW - Amazon River Valley KW - social conditions KW - social life and customs AU - Raymond B. Hames AU - William T. Vickers AB - The present description concerns shifting cultivation among the Machiguenga, Native American inhabitants of the tropical rainforest of the Upper Amazon, specifically, a community on the Kompiroshiato River, a tributary of the Urubamba River in the department of Cuzco, Peru. The language is of the Arawakan family, and is closely allied to that of the Amuesha, Campa, and Piro Indians, who also inhabit the montana of Southeastern Peru. As is typical of the montana region, Machiguenga settlements vary from single families to small hamlets of related families located on a stream that provides clean water for household needs, near a river suitable for fishing, and with abundant forest for hunting and from which gardens are cleared. Population density is 0.3 persons/km2. The Machiguenga spend nearly as much time procuring wild foods as they do cultivating their gardens, but it is from their gardens that the vast bulk of their food derives, including a great overproduction of starchy tubers for food security under isolated and vulnerable living conditions. (author) AN - 91-01513 BT - Studies in anthropology CN - F2230.1.S68A3 1983 CY - New York DA - 01/1983 DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries LA - English N2 - The present description concerns shifting cultivation among the Machiguenga, Native American inhabitants of the tropical rainforest of the Upper Amazon, specifically, a community on the Kompiroshiato River, a tributary of the Urubamba River in the department of Cuzco, Peru. The language is of the Arawakan family, and is closely allied to that of the Amuesha, Campa, and Piro Indians, who also inhabit the montana of Southeastern Peru. As is typical of the montana region, Machiguenga settlements vary from single families to small hamlets of related families located on a stream that provides clean water for household needs, near a river suitable for fishing, and with abundant forest for hunting and from which gardens are cleared. Population density is 0.3 persons/km2. The Machiguenga spend nearly as much time procuring wild foods as they do cultivating their gardens, but it is from their gardens that the vast bulk of their food derives, including a great overproduction of starchy tubers for food security under isolated and vulnerable living conditions. (author) PB - Academic Press PP - New York PY - 1983 RN -

Not originally listed as a whole; just Ch 2 in CIKARD original files
Local system: LIAS912813
General Note: Includes index
Bibliography note: Bibliography: p. 479-507

SN - 0-12-321250-2 EP - 516 pp. T2 - Studies in anthropology TI - Adaptive responses of native Amazonians UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8827760 ER -