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People of the tropical rain forest

Title
  1. People of the tropical rain forest / edited by Julie Sloan Denslow and Christine Padoch.
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  1. Berkeley : University of California Press ; Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, [©1988]

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Additional authors
  1. Denslow, Julie Sloan.
  2. Padoch, Christine.
Description
  1. 231 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm
Subject
  1. Human ecology > Tropics
  2. Ethnology > Tropics
  3. Rain forests
  4. Human ecology
  5. Ethnology
  6. rainforests
  7. human ecology
  8. social anthropology
  9. ethnology
  10. Economic history
  11. Social conditions
  12. Humanökologie
  13. Sozioökonomischer Wandel
  14. Tropischer Regenwald
  15. Mensch
  16. Écologie humaine > Régions tropicales
  17. Forêts pluviales
  18. Tropics > Social conditions
  19. Tropics > Economic conditions
  20. Tropics
  21. Tropen
  22. Régions tropicales > Conditions économiques
  23. Régions tropicales > Conditions sociales
Contents
  1. The tropical rain-forest setting / Julie Sloan Denslow -- Tropical rain-forest images / Francis E. Putz and N. Michele Holbrook -- The prehistory of Amazonia / Betty J. Meggers -- The prehistory of the Asian rain forests / Karl L. Hutterer -- Indians of the Amazonian forest / Robert L. Carneiro -- Hill people of northern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter -- Hunters and farmers of the African forest / David S. Wilkie -- People of the floodplain and forest / Christine Padoch -- The Indonesian transmigrants / Gloria Davis -- Following the Amazonian highways / Emilio F. Moran -- Big business in the Amazon / Marianne Schmink -- The logging industry in tropical Asia / Malcolm Gillis -- A question of sustainable use / Peter S. Ashton -- Perspective on conservation in Indonesia / Setijati Sastrapradja -- The new great age of clearance and beyond / Harold C. Brookfield.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 225-226.