The Abundance of Protein in Amazonia
A Reply to Gross
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11503770 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beckerman (0000-0001-7830-175X, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Stephen Beckerman |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533-560 |
| Publication date | 1979-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1979.81.3.02a00020 |
| OpenAlex | W2133873653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 24 |
A critical examination of Gross's hypothesis that aboriginal Amazonian populations were limited to low levels by lack of adequate protein resources concludes that (1) evidence either for or against the hypothesis is still in short supply; (2) the role of vegetable protein in aboriginal diets needs much more attention and may ultimately overthrow the protein‐limitation hypothesis; (3) the abundance of animal protein in the tropical forest has likely also been underestimated; (4) the abundance of people in precontact Amazonia may well have been underestimated as well. [Amazonia, protein, cultural ecology, limiting factors, population]
Abundance (ecology · Amazon rainforest · Amazonian · Biology · Geography · Limiting · Population · Sociology · Tropical forest · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Demography · Ecology · Indigenous Health and Education
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Holocene Fires in the Northern Amazon Basin
Ocupação humana e transformação da paisagem na Amazônia brasileira
Caçadores Coletores na Amazônia
Estratégias adaptativas de duas populações caboclas (Pará) aos ecossistemas de várzea estuarina e estacional
Bibliografia
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An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon
Tough fishing and severe seasonal food insecurity in Amazonian flooded forests
Differences in life style and nutritional status between settlers and Siona‐Secoya Indians living in the same Amazonian milieu
Archaeobotanical Methods for the Study of Amazonian Dark Earths
Bread of the Land
Game Wars? Ecology and Conflict in Amazonia
Supervillage Formation in the Amazonian Terra Firme
Meat, markets, and mechanical materialism
Huastec noncrop resource management
Does the Swidden Ape the Jungle
The wild yam question
The cultural ecology of dietary change accompanying changing activity patterns among the shipibo
Ka'apor ritual hunting
Village division in lowland South America
Flautas, banhas e caxiris
Variation in body size and shape among South American Indians
Beyond protein intake
La metáfora ecológica
O Velho E O Novo Na Arqueologia Amazônica
Village fissioning in Amazônia
Agricultural limitations of the Amazon in theory and practice
Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia
Ethnoecology as Applied Anthropology in Amazonian Development
On Meat and Hunting
Manioc agriculture and sedentism in Amazonia
Getting to the Meat of the Problem
Subsistence fishery at Hatahara (750–1230 CE), a pre-Columbian central Amazonian village
Archaeological aspects of insect use
Early Utilization of Flood-Recession Soils as a Response to The Intensification of Fishing and Upland Agriculture
Effects of cultural change on health and fertility in Amazonian Indian societies
A Port by Any Other Name
Amazonia and the Progress of Ethnology
Ecological, Anthropological, and Agronomic Research in the Amazon Basin
Village Size and Permanence in Amazonia
Commercial Hunting by Subsistence Hunters
Adaptación humana y ocupación de los ambientes amazónicos por poblaciones indígenas precolombinas
Health and demography of native Amazonians
Ocupações humanas do Holoceno inicial e médio no sudoeste amazônico
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Terra PretaSoils and Their Archaeological Context in the Caquetá Basin of Southeast Colombia
Why Hunters Gather
Hunting and Gathering in Tropical Rain Forest
Environmental Productivity, Population Regulation, and Carrying Capacity
Human Adaptive Strategies in Amazonian Blackwater Ecosystems
The Optimal Foraging Analysis of Horticultural Production
Protein and Carbohydrate Resources of the Maku Indians of Northwestern Amazonia
Insects as Food
Primitive Warfare and the Ratomorphic Image of Mankind
Hunting in Ancient and Modern Amazonia
Agricultura e alimentação em populações ribeirinhas das várzeas do Amazonas
Yanomami
The Ecological Perspective in Anthropology
Amerindian political economies of life
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
Handbook of South American Indians
Native Population of the Americas in 1492
The Transition from Hunting to Horticulture in the Amazon Basin
The Yanoama Indians
Cattle, Cash, Food, and Forest; The Destruction of the American Tropics and the Lacandon Maya Alternative
“Garden hunting” in the American tropics
The lack of acceptance of the pejibaye palm and a relative comparison of its productivity to that of maize
Pejibaye palm
Pejibaye palm from the pacific coast of colombia (a detailed chemical analysis)
The use of wild plants in tropical South America
The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon
Utilization of game along Brazil's transamazon highway
The naturalist on the River Amazons
Indians of Southeastern Colombia
From Barter to Slavery
The Jívaro
Population, Resources and Warfare Among the Yanomami
Protein Capture and Cultural Development in the Amazon Basin1
| Unique citing works | 62 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,35 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2024 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |