Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia
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While anthropologists and ecologists have carefully described the activities of the slash-and-burn cultivators, ranchers, and miners of tropical South America, they have largely overlooked the economic strategies and political struggles of riverine people who survive by flood-recession agriculture and fishing. These ribere os, who constitute the majority of the inhabitants of the Amazonian floodplains of Peru, have developed ecologically sustainable...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0816514828
ISBN13:9780816514823
Release Date:October 1994
Publisher:University of Arizona Press
Length:267 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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