Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia

by Michael Chibnik

Book Overview

While anthropologists and ecologists have carefully described the activities of the slash-and-burn cultivators, ranchers, and miners of tropical South America, they have largely overlooked the economic strategies and political struggles of riverine people who survive by flood-recession agriculture and fishing. These ribere os, who constitute the majority of the inhabitants of the Amazonian floodplains of Peru, have developed ecologically sustainable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816514828
• ISBN13: 9780816514823
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"