Food and Debt among Rubber Tappers in the Bolivian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2499402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Romanoff (Organization of American States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 122-135 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Society for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.51.2.l693456x76nt1314 |
| OpenAlex | W2001321565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
Members of households in the tropical forest of northern Bolivia tap natural rubber, gather Brazil nuts, farm on a small-scale, and engage in urban commerce. This article describes regional settlement types, human ecological zones, and occupations. The main topics are food insecurity, social stratification, and the tension between household strategies and the exigencies of subsistence. Food insecurity contributes to indebtedness, residential mobility, and social inequalities. Development issues include the need for increased food production, the patron/debt mode of economic organization as a potential problem for creating extractive reserves, the participation of indigenous ethnic groups, and the need for social, cultural, geographic, and economic data for planning
Brazil nut · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Indigenous Health and Education
The Politics of Amazonian Conservation
The Effects of Rural Education on the Use of the Tropical Rain Forest by the Sumu Indians of Nicaragua
The Politics of Amazonian Conservation
The effect of income on the extraction of non-timber tropical forest products
Political versus techno‐economic factors in the development of non‐timber forest products
Cows versus rubber
Rain Forest Extraction and Conservation in Amazonia
Hybrid histories and indigenous knowledge among Asian rubber smallholders
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2007 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |