Strategies of rain-forest dwellers against misfortunes: The Tsimane' Indians of Bolivia

Ethnology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-69

  Godoy, Ricardo ^a   Jacobson, Marc ^b   Wilkie, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Forest Research and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Credit; Food security; Insurance; Misfortunes; Rain forest; Reciprocity; Tsimane'

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; RAINFOREST; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0031861220     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773848     Document Type: Article

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