Tradition, Change and Land Rights: Land Use and Territorial Strategies among the Piaroa

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-372

  Freire, Germán ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture change; Development; Land rights; Land use; Lowland South America; Middle Orinoco; Piaroa; Territoriality; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346896336     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X03234006     Document Type: Review

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