The Role of Guadua Bamboo in Land Management and Indigenous Perspectives on Bamboo Ecosystems in Southwestern Amazonia

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ID18936622
AutoresP K Virtanen (0000-0002-5879-1074, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente), Franciso Apurinã (0000-0002-6221-5571), Francisco Apurinã (University of Helsinki), Kalle Ruokolainen (0000-0002-7494-9417, University of Turku), Lucas Manchineri, Lucas Artur Brasil Manchineri
Ano2022
Volume50
Fascículo6
Páginas1077-1088
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Ecology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0300-7839 • E-ISSN: 1572-9915
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10745-022-00376-8
OpenAlexW4312106815
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas35

We examine the Indigenous uses, oral histories, and knowledge of native Guadua bamboo species in southwestern Amazonia. Two Guadua species form dense stands in which individual plants die en masse at regular intervals of about 28 years. Scholars suggested that pre-colonial earth builders took advantage of these die-off events as a natural aid in removing the forest to construct geometric earthworks. Our results show that Guadua species have a significant position in Indigenous socio-cosmologies, land use, and as a protector of diverse resources. Indigenous ontological understandings cannot be separated from discussions of the abundance and geographical distribution of Guadua as a critical controlling factor in the vegetation structure and function of southwestern Amazonian rain forests. Furthermore, oral histories point to the connection between land management and bamboo, as well as bamboo and the use of fire, conforming to the suggestion of opening ceremonial spaces in bamboo patches in pre-colonial earthwork societies

Agroforestry · Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Bamboo · Biology · China · Geography · Indigenous · African Botany and Ecology Studies · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Ecology