Models of subsistence and ethnobiological knowledge: Between extraction and cultivation in Southeast Asia

Reference Type Book Chapter
Year of Publication
1999
Author
Author: Roy F. Ellen
Editor: Scott Atran
Book Title
Folkbiology
Pagination
91-118
Date Published
06/1999
Publisher
MIT Press
City
Cambridge, MA
Language
English
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ISBN
026263192X; 9780262631921
Call Number
GN476.7.F65 1999
Abstract
The successful adaptation of human populations to rainforest environments depends largely on their capacity to organise and apply knowledge of its structure and composition. This paper examines our current understanding of this knowledge in a Southeast Asian context and how this relates to reliance on different models of subsistence. Particular emphasis will be placed on the differences between those populations which focus predominantly on direct extraction and those which focus on plant cultivation, and on populations which appear to be in various respects transitional. (author)
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CIKARD copy is draft of chapter and 23 pages.
Number of pages
23 pp
Short Title
Models of subsistence and ethnobiological knowledge