Tropical forests, people and food : biocultural interactions and applications to development
- Title
- Tropical forests, people and food : biocultural interactions and applications to development / edited by C.M. Hladik [and others].
- Published by
- Paris : UNESCO ; Carnforth, UK ; Pearl River, N.Y. : Parthenon Pub. Group, 1993.
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- Description
- xxiv, 852 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "For as long as they have inhabited tropical forests, people have used, managed and transformed natural resources in their quest for food. The future of tropical forests and their human inhabitants will continue to depend on the ways - wise or otherwise - in which food is procured and produced." "In this book, scientists from disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences have focused on the biocultural interactions between tropical forest food resources and the communities they sustain. The volume's 74 chapters are organized into six major sections dealing with: evolution and history of tropical forests in relation to food availability; food production and nutritional value of wild and semi-cultivated species; adaptive aspects of food consumption and energy expenditure; feeding strategies in relation to environmental variation; cultural factors in food choices; and management alternatives for the rational use of tropical forests in years to come. Each section begins with a background chapter that provides key references and attempts to integrate the individual chapters in terms of overall themes and salient problems." "The book's interdisciplinary approach makes it a valuable source of ideas and data upon which natural and social scientists can draw for discussion and analysis. It will also assist managers, planners, development agencies and concerned individuals in making the right decisions about the future of tropical forests and the people who live in them."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series statement
- Man and the biosphere series ; v. 13
- Uniform title
- Man and the biosphere series ; v. 13.
- Subject
- Diet > Tropics > Congresses
- Nutrition > Tropics > Congresses
- Rain forest ecology > Congresses
- Diet
- Nutrition
- Rain forest ecology
- Tropischer Regenwald
- Ökosystem
- Nutzung
- Ressourcen
- Tropischer Wald
- Humanökologie
- Ernährung
- Écologie des forêts pluviales > Congrès
- Nutrition > Régions tropicales > Congrès
- Alimentation > Régions tropicales > Congrès
- forêt tropicale humide
- Tropics
- Paris <1991>
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Contents
- 1. Tropical Forests, People and Food: An Overview / Claude Marcel Hladik, Olga F. Linares, Annette Hladik, Helene Pagezy and Alison Semple -- 2. Evolution and History of Tropical Forests in Relation to Food Availability -- Background / Doyle McKey, Olga F. Linares, Charles R. Clement and Claude Marcel Hladik -- 3. Native American Adaptations to the Tropical Forests of Central and South America, Before the European Colonization / Richard Cooke and Dolores Piperno -- 4. History of the Inhabitants of the Central African Rain Forest: Perspectives from Comparative Linguistics / Serge Bahuchet -- 5. Tropical Humid Forest Food Plants and Their Domestication: Examples from Africa and America / Jean-Louis Guillaumet
- 6. The Importance of Semi-Domesticated Species in Post-Contact Amazonia: Effects of the Kayapo Indians on the Dispersal of Flora and Fauna / Darrell A. Posey -- 7. Fruits of the Rain Forest and Taste Perception as a Result of Evolutionary Interactions / Claude Marcel Hladik -- 8. Chemical Ecology, Plant Evolution and Traditional Manioc Cultivation Systems / Doyle McKey and Stephen Beckerman -- 9. The Responses of Dayak and Bearded Pig to Mast-Fruiting in Kalimantan: An Analysis of Nature-Culture Analogies / Michael R. Dove -- 10. Food Production and Nutritional Value of Wild and Semi-Domesticated Species -- Background / Annette Hladik, Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. and Francois Bourliere
- 11. Native Amazonian Fruits and Nuts: Composition, Production and Potential Use for Sustainable Development / Charles R. Clement -- 12. Amazonian Palms: Food Resources for the Management of Forest Ecosystems / Francis Kahn -- 13. Wild Yams of the African Rain Forest as Potential Food Resources / Annette Hladik and Edmond Dounias -- 14. Nutritional and Socio-Economic Value of Gnetum Leaves in Central African Forest / Fidele Mialoundama -- 15. Underutilized Food Plant Resources of Sinharaja Rain Forest, Sri Lanka / Nimal I. U. A. Gunatilleke and Savitri C. V. Gunatilleke -- 16. Forest Food Resources in the Tropical Mountains of the Mixtec Highlands, Mexico / Esther Katz -- 17. Insects in the Diet of Tropical Forest Peoples in Mexico / Julieta Ramos-Elorduy
- 18. Utilization of Forest Resources and Local Variation of Wildlife Populations in Northeastern Gabon / Sally A. Lahm -- 19. Hunting in Neotropical Forests: A Subsidy from Nature / Kent H. Redford -- 20. Adaptive Aspects of Food Consumption and Energy Expenditure -- Background / Patrick Pasquet, Alain Froment and Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- 21. Changing Food and Nutrition of the Gidra in Lowland Papua New Guinea / Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- 22. Making Sago in Papua New Guinea: Is it Worth the Effort? / Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Simon P. Poraituk -- 23. Food Resources and Survival Among the Hagahai of Papua New Guinea / Carol Jenkins and Katharine Milton
- 24. Food Consumption in Three Forest Populations of the Southern Coastal Area of Cameroon: Yassa -- Mvae -- Bakola / Georgius J. A. Koppert, Edmond Dounias, Alain Froment and Patrick Pasquet -- 25. Activity Patterns and Energy Expenditure in Cameroonian Tropical Forest Populations / Patrick Pasquet and Georgius J. A. Koppert -- 26. The Influence of Dietary Cyanogenic Glycosides from Cassava on Human Metabolic Biology and Microevolution / Fatimah Linda Collier Jackson -- 27. Ash Salt, Cassava and Goitre: Change in the Diet and the Development of Endemic Goitre Among the Azande in Central Africa / Armin Prinz -- 28. Nutritional Anthropometry of South American Indigenes: Growth Deficits in Biocultural and Development Perspective / Rebeca Holmes
- 29. "Eat Well, Live Well": Nutritional Status and Health of Forest Populations in Southern Cameroon / Alain Froment, Georgius J. A. Koppert and Jean-Felix Loung -- 30. The Importance of Natural Resources in the Diet of the Young Child in a Flooded Tropical Forest in Zaire / Helene Pagezy -- 31. Seasonal Variation in Diet and Nutritional Status of Young Children in Villages of Kwango-Kwilu (Zaire) / Lukowa Kukwikila, Leonard Mashako Mamba, Feti Kwilu, A. Abraham and Theophile Mbemba Fundu -- 32. Seasonality of Food Production, Nutritional Status, Ovarian Function and Fertility in Central Africa / Robert C. Bailey, Mark R. Jenike, Peter T. Ellison, Gillian R. Bentley, Alisa M. Harrigan and Nadine R. Peacock -- 33. Feeding Strategies in Relation to Environmental Variation -- Background / Olga F. Linares, Helene Pagezy and Pierre Grenand
- 34. Major Patterns in Indigenous Amazonian Subsistence / Stephen Beckerman -- 35. Fruits, Animals and People: Hunting and Fishing Strategies of the Wayapi of Amazonia / Pierre Grenand -- 36. Rivers of Hunger? Indigenous Resource Management in the Oligotrophic Ecosystems of the Rio Negro, Venezuela / Leslie E. Sponsel and Paula C. Loya -- 37. Bitter Manioc in the Lowlands of Tropical America: Myth to Commercialization / Francoise Grenand -- 38. Changing Tropical Forest Resource Management Strategies Among the Siona and Secoya Indians / William T. Vickers -- 39. Yanomami Natural Resource Use: An Inclusive Cultural Strategy / Jacques Lizot -- 40. Diversity and Selectivity in the Food of the Mbuti Hunter-Gatherers in Zaire / Mitsuo Ichikawa
- 41. Multiple Subsistence Strategies and Protein Resources of Horticulturalists in the Zaire Basin: The Ngandu and the Boyela / Jun Takeda and Hiroaki Sato -- 42. Ecology, Food and Nutrition: The Onge Foragers of the Andaman Tropical Forest / D. Venkatesan -- 43. Contrasting Subsistence Ecologies Among Penan Foragers, Sarawak (East Malaysia) / J. Peter Brosius -- 44. Cultural Factors in Food Choices -- Background / Igor de Garine, Stephen Hugh-Jones and Armin Prinz -- 45. "Food" and "Drugs" in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 46. The Role of Food in the Therapeutics of the Aka Pygmies of the Central African Republic / Elisabeth Motte-Florac, Serge Bahuchet and Jacqueline M. C. Thomas -- 47. Food Resources and Preferences in the Cameroonian Forest / Igor de Garine -- 48. The Bitter is Sweet: A Case Study of Bitter Cassava (Manihot Esculenta) Use in Amazonia / Darna L. Dufour
- 49. The Storage of Manioc Products and Its Symbolic Importance the Tukanoans / Christine Hugh-Jones and Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 50. Palm Oil Versus Palm Wine: Symbolic and Economic Dimensions / Olga F. Linares -- 51. Red Oil, Black Oil, White Oil: Foods for the Body and the Skin / Claudie Haxaire -- 52. Perception and Use of Wild Yams by the Baka Hunter-Gatherers in South Cameroon / Edmond Dounias -- 53. The Mask That Is Hungry for Yams: Ethno-Ecology of Dioscorea Mangenotiana Among the Baka, Cameroon / Daou Veronique Joiris -- 54. Food Plants and Cultural Identity: The Boni in French Guiana and African Memories / Marie Fleury -- 55. The Symbolic Significance of Food from the Forest Among the Kelabit of Sarawak, East Malaysia / Monica R. H. Janowski
- 56. Pangium Edule: A Food for the Social Body Among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea / Pascale Bonnemere -- 57. The Eel and the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea: Material and Symbolic Aspects of Trapping / Pierre Lemonnier -- 58. Food and the Future of the Tropical Forest: Management Alternatives -- Background / Roelof A. A. Oldeman, Charles R. Clement and D. Matuka Kabala -- 59. The Potential for Sustainable Hunting and Rearing of Game in Tropical Forests / Francois Feer -- 60. Creation and Management of Rural Agroforests in Indonesia: Potential Applications in Africa / Hubert de Foresta and Genevieve Michon -- 61. Greening of Central Indian Wastelands / Urmila Pingle -- 62. State Forestry and the Decline in Food Resources in the Tropical Forests of Uttara Kannada, Southern India / M. D. Subash Chandran and Madhav Gadgil
- 63. People, Biodiversity and Regenerating Tropical Sal (Shorea Robusta) Forests in West Bengal, India / Kailash C. Malhotra -- 64. Managing Amazonian Variability with Indigenous Knowledge / Emilio F. Moran -- 65. Extractivism: A Controversial Use of the Tropical Ecosystem / Jean-Paul Lescure and Florence Pinton -- 66. Extractivism and Agriculture: The Choice of One Community on the Rio Solimoes / Henrique Pereira Dos Santos and Jean-Paul Lescure.
- 67. Extractive Exploitation of the Acai (Euterpe Precatoria) Near Manaus, Amazonia / Aline de Castro -- 68. Ecological and Socio-Economic Aspects of Extractivism on the Middle Rio Negro / Laure Emperaire and Florence Pinton -- 69. Socio-Economic Aspects of Extractivism in the Jau National Park, Amazonia / Nigel C. Sizer -- 70. Aguajales: Forest Fruit Extraction in the Peruvian Amazon / Julio Ruiz Murrieta and Jeanine Levistre Ruiz -- 71. Forestry, Food Security and Nutrition: Strengthening Links Between FAO and the Academic-Research Community / Marilyn W. Hoskins -- 72. Conservation by Commercialization / Margaret I. Evans -- 73. Towards a New Legislation for Forest Management: The Example of the African Timber Organization / Genevieve Humbert -- 74. Epilogue: Comments on the Paris Symposium by a Concerned Biologist / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Papers presented at a symposium held at the UNESCO in Sept. 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.