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Life Without Pigs: Recent Subsistence Changes Among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea.
September 1, 2001... David J. Boyd [1]
Beginning in the late 1980s, the Irakia Awa commenced changing their basic subsistence adaptation. This included altering gardening practices, changing basic food consumption patterns, and most importantly, eliminating...
Modes of Communication and Effectiveness of Agroforestry Extension in Eastern India.
September 1, 2001... Anthony Glendinning, [1]
Ajay Mahapatra [2]
C. Paul Mitchell [2,3]
Development of extension in agroforestry draws on the application of the innovation-diffusion process in agriculture. To be effective, agroforestry extension needs...
Women's Income and the Livelihood Strategies of Dispossessed Pastoralists Near the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.
September 1, 2001... Daniel Brockington [1]
There are numerous incidences of impoverishment and livelihood change in pastoral societies following transformations in land use, and land and livestock ownership. Opinion is divided over the effect of these changes...
Land Cover Assessment of Indigenous Communities in the BOSAWAS Region of Nicaragua [1].(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Jonathan H. Smith [2]
INTRODUCTION
In some regions of the world, indigenous peoples still retain control over the lands and resources they and their ancestors have utilized for centuries. However, such control is becoming increasingly...
Assessing Criticisms of Faunal Analyses and Environmental Reconstructions in the Tehuacan Valley Project.
September 1, 2001... Christopher C. Fennell [1]
INTRODUCTION
This comment examines a portion of the statistical data compiled and analyzed by Flannery (1967) in his archaeological work at Coxcatlan Cave and other caves near Tehuacan in the early 1960s. The...
Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development. By Paul H. Gelles. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000,233 pp., $ 22.00 (paperback).
Water and Power in Highland Peru chronicles an Andean...
Nature and Culture in the Andes.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Nature and Culture in the Andes. By Daniel Gade. University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin, 1999, 287 pp.
Daniel Gade would be pleased to know that the most recent cinematic production in the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was entitled...