Human-nonhuman primate interactions amongst Tikuna People: Perceptions and local initiatives for resource management in Amacayacu in the Colombian Amazon

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 855-865

  Parathian, Hannah E ^a   Maldonado, Angela M ^a,b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fundacion Entropika   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cultural change; Ethnoprimatology; Primate conservation; Resource management; Subsistence hunting

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; BUSHMEAT; CULTURAL CHANGE; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HUNTING; NATIONAL PARK; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PROTEIN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATELIDAE; CHILD; COLOMBIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATELINAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUPS; YOUNG ADULT;

AMAZONAS [COLOMBIA]; COLOMBIA; PERU; SAN MARTIN;

LAGOTHRIX; LAGOTHRIX LAGOTRICHA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77957101481     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20816     Document Type: Article

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