Title Indians, markets, and rainforests : theory, methods, analysis / Ricardo Godoy

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages) : illustrations Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Question, the Research Design, and the People -- Ch. 1 Question and Its Significance -- Ch. 2 Comparing Approaches -- Ch. 3 Research Design -- Ch. 4 Ethnographic Sketches -- pt. II Findings -- Ch. 5 Forest Clearance: Income, Technology, and Private Time Preference -- Ch. 6 Game Consumption, Income, and Prices: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Conservation -- Ch. 7 Chayanov and Netting: When Does Demography Matter? -- Ch. 8 Chayanov and Sahlins on Work and Leisure -- Ch. 9 Human Health: Does It Worsen with Markets? -- Ch. 10 Mishaps, Savings, and Reciprocity -- Ch. 11 Trade and Cognition: On the Growth and Loss of Knowledge / Nicholas Brokaw / David Wilkie / Ricardo A. Godoy / [and others] -- Ch. 12 Time Preference, Markets, and the Evolution of Social Inequality -- pt. III What We Have Learned -- Ch. 13 Conclusions Summary Godoy investigates five lowland Amerindian societies of tropical Latin America--all of which are experiencing deep changes as they modernize--to discover the results of a market economy on both indigenous peoples and the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-240) and index Notes English Print version record In Title is part of the collection: De Gruyter Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility Subject Indians of Central America -- Social conditions Indians of South America -- Social conditions Rain forests -- Economic aspects -- Latin America Rain forest ecology -- Latin America Human ecology -- Government policy -- Latin America Deforestation -- Economic aspects -- Latin America Social change -- Latin America SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. Deforestation -- Economic aspects Economic history Indians of Central America -- Social conditions Indians of South America -- Social conditions Rain forest ecology Rain forests -- Economic aspects Social change Social conditions SUBJECT Latin America -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074916 Latin America -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074888 Subject Latin America Form Electronic book ISBN 0231505035 9780231505031 9780231117845 0231117841

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