Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Pages xi-xii
Preface, Pages xiii-xv
CHAPTER 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-26
CHAPTER 2 - Machiguenga Gardens, Pages 29-63
CHAPTER 3 - The Cultivation of Manioc among the Kuikuru of the Upper Xingú, Pages 65-111
CHAPTER 4 - Adaptive Strategies of Wakuénai People to the Oligotrophic Rain Forest of the Rio Negro Basin, Pages 113-135
CHAPTER 5 - Neotropical Hunting among the Aché of Eastern Paraguay, Pages 139-188
CHAPTER 6 - Shotguns, Blowguns, and Spears: The Analysis of Technological Efficiency, Pages 189-224
CHAPTER 7 - Why Do the Mekranoti Trek?, Pages 225-238
CHAPTER 8 - Cocamilla Fishing: Patch Modification and Environmental Buffering in the Amazon Várzea, Pages 239-267
CHAPTER 9 - Carpe Diem: An Optimal Foraging Approach to Bari Fishing and Hunting, Pages 269-299
CHAPTER 10 - Adaptation and Ethnozoological Classification: Theoretical Implications of Animal Resources and Diet of the Aguaruna and Huambisa, Pages 301-325
CHAPTER 11 - Nutrition in the Northwest Amazon: Household Dietary Intake and Time–Energy Expenditure, Pages 329-355
CHAPTER 12 - Seasonal Factors in Subsistence, Nutrition, and Child Growth in a Central Brazilian Indian Community, Pages 357-390
CHAPTER 13 - The Settlement Pattern of a Ynomamö Population Bloc: A Behavioral Ecological Interpretation, Pages 393-427
CHAPTER 14 - Village Movement in Relation to Resources in Amazonia, Pages 429-449
CHAPTER 15 - The Territorial Dimensions of Siona–Secoya and Encabellado Adaptation, Pages 451-478
References, Pages 479-507
Index, Pages 509-516
STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY, Pages ibc1-ibc2