TY - CHAP T1 - Pátzcuaro's lesson: Nature, production, and culture in an indigenous region of Mexico T2 - Biodiversity: Culture, conservation, and ecodevelopment Y1 - 1991 A1 - Victor M. Toledo ED - Margery L. Oldfield ED - Janis B. Alcorn KW - agricultural conservation KW - agricultural ecology KW - biodiversity conservation KW - ecosystem KW - fish KW - forestry KW - germplasm resources KW - household KW - land redistribution KW - land tenure KW - landscapes KW - maize morphology KW - Mesoamerica KW - mestizo KW - mushroom KW - Native Americans KW - natural resource management KW - pasture KW - peasants KW - population KW - Purépecha KW - settlements KW - smallholders KW - soil classification KW - subsistence patterns KW - Tarascans KW - taxonomy KW - transect KW - woodland management AB - This document looks at the ecosystem and cultural history in the region of Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico. The production activities and use of natural resources (plant and animal, both wild and cultivated) of and by the local indigenous communities are detailed. Activities and knowledge of the Purhépecha people are focused upon. JF - Biodiversity: Culture, conservation, and ecodevelopment PB - Westview Press CY - Boulder, CO SN - 0-8133-7680-7; 978-0-8133-7680-6 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24467584 U5 - 26 pp. JO - Pátzcuaro's lesson ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Indigenous soil management in the Amazon basin: Some implications for development T2 - Fragile lands of Latin America: Strategies for sustainable development Y1 - 1989 A1 - Susanna B. Hecht ED - John O. Browder KW - American Indians KW - deforestation KW - Kayapo KW - local knowledge KW - Native Americans KW - nutrition KW - pasture KW - Peru KW - rainforests KW - soil degradation KW - South America KW - tropical forests KW - Yurimaguas AB - This paper focuses on two main issues. First, it discusses the indigenous versus modernization approaches to soil resource management in Amazonian research and development strategies. The production systems of the Kayapó Indians of southern Para state are compared with those that inform current regional agricultural programs. While indigenous systems are complex, the principles that underlie them are not. Native land management models could be adapted by development planning agencies in a fuller way. Second, the outcomes of Kayapó and conventional colonist and livestock systems are compared in terms of soil fertility and yields. (author) JF - Fragile lands of Latin America: Strategies for sustainable development T3 - Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development PB - Westview Press CY - Boulder, CO SN - 0-8133-7705-6; 978-0-8133-7705-6 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18351601 N1 - Chapter 11 JO - Indigenous soil management in the Amazon basin ER -