Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon - On a Local Society in Transition

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Chapter 1

Introduction: Setting the Stage

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Introducing Society, Nature and Transitions

1.3 Introducing the MEFA Framework

1.4 Fieldwork Among the Tsimane’

1.5 What the Book Says

References

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Chapter 2

Sociometabolic Transitions and the MEFA Toolkit: Concepts and Methods

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Sociometabolic Sustainability Transitions

2.2.1 Characterising a Sustainability Transition

2.2.2 Sociometabolic Regimes and Transitions: Theoretical Considerations

2.3 The MEFA Framework Toolkit

2.3.1 Social Metabolism

2.3.1.1 Scholarly Origins of Social Metabolism

2.3.1.2 Material and Energy Flow Accounting

Material Flow Accounting (MFA)

How To Do MFA Accounting?

MFA Indicators

Energy Flow Accounting (EFA)

EFA Indicators

2.3.2 Colonization of Terrestrial Ecosystems

2.3.2.1 Colonization Intensity Indicator: HANPP

2.3.3 Functional Time Use

2.3.3.1 Human Time Use and Social Metabolism

2.4 Conclusion

References

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Chapter 3

Exploring an Indigenous World in the Bolivian Amazon: The Case of the Tsimane’

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Tsimane’ Habitat

3.2.1 Biogeographical Features

3.3 Landscape and Cosmos: Bridging the Natural and the Cultural

3.3.1 Cosmic Landmarks

3.3.2 The Forest and Its Use

3.3.3 The River and Its Use

3.3.4 Farming Myths

3.4 Tsimane’ History of Contact

3.4.1 From Sporadic Encounter

3.4.2 To Permanent Links

3.4.2.1 Tsimane’ Growing Economic Relations with Outsiders

3.4.2.2 Colonisation Programmes and Mounting Social Conflict

3.4.2.3 Protective Measures and Tsimane’ Land Claims

3.4.2.4 The Beni Biosphere Reserve (BBR)

3.4.2.5 More Recent Missionary Efforts

3.5 Settlement and Community Life

3.5.1 Demography and Settlement

3.5.2 The Private and the Public Sphere

3.5.2.1 The Household

3.5.2.2 Beyond the Household

3.5.2.3 Patterns of Leadership

3.6 Conclusion

References

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Chapter 4

Stocks, Flows and Land Use: The Metabolic Profile of Campo Bello

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Community Setting

4.2.1 Village Demography

4.2.2 The Social and Political Sphere

4.2.2.1 Village Hierarchy and Leadership

4.2.2.2 Communal Gatherings and Group Settings

4.2.3 The Village Economy

4.3 The Sociometabolic Profile of Campo Bello

4.3.1 Field Methodology on Stocks, Flows and Land Use

4.3.2 Local Material Stocks

4.3.2.1 Human and Livestock Population

4.3.2.2 Housing Infrastructure

4.3.2.3 Household Artefacts

4.3.3 Local Material Flows

4.3.3.1 Domestic Extraction

4.3.3.2 Imports

4.3.3.3 Nutritional Flows

4.3.3.4 Water Use

4.3.3.5 Outputs

4.3.3.6 Exports

4.3.3.7 (Un)Sustainabiltiy Indicators

4.3.4 Local Energy Flows

4.3.4.1 Domestic Extraction

4.3.4.2 Imports

4.3.4.3 Exports

4.3.4.4 (Un)Sustainability Indicators

4.3.4.5 Conversion Processes

4.3.5 Local Colonizing Strategies

4.3.5.1 Kitchen Gardens

4.3.5.2 Agricultural Fields

4.3.5.3 Fallows

4.3.5.4 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP)

NPP0

NPPact

NPPh

HANPP

4.3.6 Possibilities, Constraints and Future Prospects

4.3.6.1 Primary Energy Use

4.3.6.2 Nutrition and Dependency

4.3.6.3 Final and Useful Energy

4.3.6.4 Material Use

4.3.6.5 Demography and Water Use

4.3.6.6 Colonization Intensity – HANPP

4.4 Conclusion

References

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Chapter 5

Time, Work, and Other Functions

5.1 Introducing and Embedding the Use of Time

5.1.1 Time Use Studies Revisited

5.1.2 Explaining the Functional Subsystems

5.2 The Collection, Coding and Classification Process

5.3 The Qualitative Order

5.3.1 Introducing the Daily Round

5.4 The Quantitative Order

5.4.1 Socially Disposable Labour Time

5.4.2 Time Investments in All Functional Subsystems

5.4.2.1 The Person System

5.4.2.2 The Household System

5.4.2.3 The Economic System

5.4.2.4 The Community System

5.4.3 Time, Cash and Efficiencies

5.4.3.1 Cash Incomes: Agriculture, Gathering and Livestock Exports

5.4.3.2 Cash Incomes: Wage Labour

5.4.3.3 Cash Investments

5.5 Conclusion: Discussing Opportunities and Time Squeeze

References

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Chapter 6

Comparing Local Transitions Across The Developing World

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Introducing SangSaeng, Nalang and Trinket2

6.2.1 Site One: SangSaeng

6.2.2 Site Two: Nalang

6.2.3 Site Three: Trinket

6.3 Agricultural Intensification and Regime Transitions

6.4 Biophysical Indicators of Intensification

6.4.1 Ecological Parameters

6.4.2 Agro-economic Parameters

6.4.2.1 Agricultural Intensification

6.4.2.2 Food Security, Self-Sufficiency and Dependency

6.4.3 Human Labour Time Parameters

6.5 Driving Forces for Change

6.5.1 Population Dynamics and Density

6.5.2 Access to Markets

6.5.3 Direct State Interventions and Other Development

6.6 Conclusion: Lessons from Contemporary Transitions

References

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Chapter 7

Local Visions for a Global Future

7.1 Introduction

7.2 What Have We Learnt?

References

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