Patterns of resource use by caboclo communities in the middle-lower Amazon

Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment: Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 157-177

  De Castro, Fábio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cattle ranching; Community; Fishing; Floodplain; Household

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865590524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_8     Document Type: Chapter

References (43)

1. Adams, C. (2002). Estrategias adaptativas de duas populações caboclas (Pará) aos ecossistemas de varzea estuarine e estacional: Uma analise comparative. PhD Dissertation-Bioscience Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo.
2. Allegretti, M. H. (1990). Extractive reserves: An alternative for reconciling development and environmental conservation in Amazônia. In A. B. Anderson (Ed.) Alternatives to deforestation: Steps toward sustainable use of the Amazon Rain Forest, (pp. 252-264). New York: Columbia University Press.
3. Anderson, A. B., & Ioris, E. M. (1992). The logic of extraction: Management and income generation by extractive producers in the Amazon. In K. H. Redford, & C. Padoch, (Eds.). Conservation of neotropical forest: Working from traditional resource use, (pp. 175-199). New York: Columbia University Press.
4. Brondízio, E. S., & Siqueira, A. D. (1997). From extractivists to forest farmers: Changing concepts of caboclo agroforestry in the Amazon estuary. Research in Economic Anthropology, 18, 233-279.
5. Bunker, S. (1985). Underdeveloping the Amazon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
6. Castro, F. (2000). Fishing accords: The political ecology of fishing intensification in the Amazon. PhD Dissertation. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
7. Castro, F. (2002). From myths to rules: The evolution of the local management in the Lower Amazônian floodplain. Environment and History, 8(2), 197-216.
8. Castro, F., & McGrath, D. (2003). Moving towards sustainability in the local management of floodplain lake fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon. Human Organization, 62, 123-133.
9. Cerdeira, R. G. P., Ruffino, M. L., & Isaac, V.J. (1997). Consumo de pescado e outros alimentos pela populacao ribeirinha do Lago Grande de Monte Alegre, PA-Brasil. Acta Amazonica, 27, 213-227.
10. Chibnik, M. (1994). Risky rivers: The economics and politics of floodplain farming in Amazônia. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
11. Denevan, W. (1984). Ecological heterogeneity and horizontal zonation of agriculture in the Amazon floodplain. In M. Schmink y C.H. Wood (Eds.), Fronteir expansion in Amazônia, (pp. 311-317). Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
12. Furtado, L. G. (1993). Pescadores do Rio Amazonas: Um Estudo Antropológico da Pesca Ribeirinha numa Área Amazônica. Colecao Eduardo Galvão. Belém, Brazil: MCT/CNPq, MPEG.
13. Futemma, C. R. T. (1995). Agriculture and Caboclo Household Organization in the Lower Amazon Basin: Case Studies. Master's thesis, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
14. Futemma, C. R. T. (2000). Collective action and assurance of property rights to natural resource: A case study from the Lower Amazon Region, Santarem, Brazil. PhD. Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
15. Futemma, C., Castro, F., Silva-Forsberg, M.C., & Ostrom, E. 2002. The emergence and outcomes of collective actions: An institutional and ecosystem approach. Society and Natural Resource, 15(6), 503-522.
16. Gentil, J. M. L. (1988). A juta na agricultural de varzea na area de Santarem-Medio Amazonas Boletim do Museu Paráense Emilio Goeldi, Série Antropologia, 4, 118-199.
17. Goulding, M., Smith, N., & Mahar. D. J. (1996). Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy along the Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press.
18. Hames, R. B., & Vickers, W. T. (Eds.) (1983). Adaptative responses of native Amazônians. New York: Academic Press.
19. Hiraoka, M. (1992). Caboclo and ribereño resource management in Amazônia: A review. In K. H. Redford & C. Padoch (Eds.), Conservation of neotropical forests: Working from traditional resource use, (pp. 134-157). New York: Columbia University Press.
20. Isaac, V. J., Mitlewski, B., & Oliveira, P. R. S. (1999). Metodologia para primeiros contatos, levantamentos participativos e multidisciplinares e incentivos a cooperacao juntos aos grupos alvo de projetos de desenvolvimento. In Recursos Pesqueiros do Médio Amazonas: Abordagem Socioeconômica, (pp. 13-29). Colecao Meio Ambiente. Serie Estudos de Pesca 21. Brasília: Brazil: IBAMA
21. Lima, D. (1992). The social category caboclo: History, social organization, identity and outsider's social classification of the rural population of an Amazônian region (Middle Solimoes). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge.
22. Lourenco Jr., J. B. (1983). A pecuaria na Amazônia. In J. Hebette (Ed.), Ciência e Tecnologia para Amazônia, (pp. 53-78). Belém, Brasil: Nucleo de Altos Estudos Amazonicos (hereinafter NAEA), Universidade Federal do Pará.
23. McGrath, D., Castro, F., & Futemma, C. (1994). Reservas de lago e o manejo comunitario da pesca no Baixo Amazonas: Uma avaliacao preliminar. In M. A. D'Incao & I. M. Silveira (Eds.), A Amazônia e a Crise da Modernizaç ão, (pp. 389-402). Colecao Eduardo Galvão. Belém, Brazil: MPEG.
24. McGrath, D., Castro, F., Futemma, C., Amaral, B. D., & Calabria, J. (1993). Fisheries and the evolution of resource management on the Lower Amazon floodplain. Human Ecology, 21, 167-195.
25. Moran, E. F. (1974). The adaptive system of the Amazônian caboclo. In C. Wagley (Ed.), Man in the Amazon, (pp. 136-159). Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
26. Moran, E. (1981). Developing the Amazon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
27. Moran, E. (1993). Through Amazônian eyes: The human ecology of amazonian populations. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
28. Moran, E. (1995). Disaggregating Amazônia: A strategy for understanding biological and cultural diversity. In L. E. Sponsel (Ed.), Indigenous peoples and the future of Amazônia: An ecological anthropology of an endangered world, (pp. 72-95). Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
29. Murrieta, R. S. S. (2000). The dilemma of the 'Chibe'-eaters: Food choices, ecology and everyday life among peasant communities in the Lower Amazon, Brazil. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Colorado, Boulder.
30. Murrieta, R. S. S. (2001). Dialetica do sabor: Alimentacao, ecologia e vida cotidiana em comunidades ribeirinhas da Ilha de Ituqui, Baixo Amazonas, Pará. Revista de Antropologia, 44, 39-88.
31. Murrieta, R. S. S., Dufour, D. L., & Siqueira, A. D. (1999). Food consumption and subsistence in three caboclo populations on Marajo Island, Amazônia, Brazil. Human Ecology, 27, 455-475.
32. Murrieta, R. S. S. & Dufour, D. L. (2004). Fish and farinha: protein and energy consumption in Amazônian rural communities on Ituqui Island, Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 43, 3, 231-55.
33. Nuggent, S. (1993). Amazônian caboclo society: An essay on invisibility and peasant economy. Oxford: Berg.
34. Padoch, C., & Jong, W. (1992). Diversity, variation, and change in ribereno agriculture. In K. H. Redford & C. Padoch (Eds.), Conservation of neotropical forests: Working from traditional resource use, (pp. 158-174). New York: Columbia University Press.
35. Parker, E. (Ed.) (1985). The Amazon Caboclo: Historical and contemporary perspectives. Studies in Third World Societies No. 32. Williamsburg, Va.: Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.
36. Posey, D. A., & Balée, W. (Eds.) (1989). Resource management in Amazônia: Indigenous and folk strategies. Advances in Economic Botany, vol. 7. Bronx, N.Y.: The New York Botanical Garden Press.
37. Roosevelt, A. (1989). Natural resource management in Amazônia before the conquest: Beyond ethnographic projection. In D. A. Posey, & W. Balée (Eds.), Resource Management in Amazônia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies, (pp. 30-62). Advances in Economic Botany, vol. 7. Bronx, N.Y.: The New York Botanical Garden Press.
38. Schmink, M. (1985). São Felix do Xingu: A caboclo community in transition. In E. Parker (Ed.), The Amazon caboclo: Historical and contemporary perspectives, (pp. 143-166). Williamsburg, V.I.: Studies in Third World Societies no.32.
39. Schmink, M., & Wood. C. H. (1992). Contested frontier in Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press.
40. Siqueira, A. D. (1997). The ecology of food and nutrition: Patterns of land use and nutritional status among caboclo populations on Marajo Island, Pará, Brazil. Ph.D. Dissertation. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
41. Weistein, B. (1983). The Amazon rubber boom, 1850-1920. Stanford University Press.
42. WinklerPrins, A. M. G. (1999). Local soil knowledge: A tool for sustainable land management. Society and Natural Resources, 12, 151-161.
43. WinklerPrins, A.M. G. (2002). Recent seasonal floodplain-upland migration along the Lower Amazon River. Geographical Review, 92, 415-431.