The lack of acceptance of the pejibaye palm and a relative comparison of its productivity to that of maize

Hunter, J. Robert

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“…However, the peach palm is still neglected and largely understudied (Hernández Bermejo and Leó n 1994;Hunter 1969;Popenoe and Jimenez 1921) in comparison to other native Neotropical crops, such as maize, cocoa, papaya, tomato, or potato.…”

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Phylogenetic Relationships of the Cultivated Neotropical Palm Bactris gasipaes (Arecaceae) with its Wild Relatives Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms

Couvreur

Hahn

Granville³

et al. 2007

Systematic Botany

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Phylogenetic Relationships of the Cultivated Neotropical Palm Bactris gasipaes (Arecaceae) with its Wild Relatives Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms

Couvreur

Hahn

Granville³

et al. 2007

Systematic Botany

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“…Incluso algunos ár-,ol s proporcionan alimentos principales. El pifuayo , tan importante para los Bora por 11 fruta y su corazón, puede competir nutricionalmente con el maíz (Hunter, 1969;lohannessen, 1966). Además de esto, los productos vegetales útiles para preparar breva-¡, ,, condimentos, construcción, fabricación de herramientas y utensilios, drogas y med l'i nas, son de no poca importancia para las sociedades comunales y sus economías.…”

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Agricultura forestal indígena en la Amazonía Peruana: mantenimiento Bora de los cultivos

Denevan¹,

Treacy²,

Alcorn³

et al. 1986

Amazonía Peruana

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Estos investigadores proponen que el cultivo racional de los suelos amazónicos junto con la efectividad de su producción y la conservación del ecosistema son una alternativa a un sistema de cultivo permanente que rompería la estabilidad ecológica y económica que han logrado los nativos del Amazonas. Demuestran, a través de su experiencia con el pueblo nativo de Bora, que, a través de un sistema de agricultura transmitido a través de su tradición cultural, el abandono de sus campos es parte de un período natural y progresivo dentro del ecosistema. Las sociedades indígenas de la selva tropical utilizan un sistema de cultivo en barbecho como medio natural de relacionarse con el hábitat amazónico, como parte de un ciclo que comienza con el cultivo y termina con un período de barbecho. La abonificación de los campos, en este sentido, no es un descuido de la tierra, sino un proceso natural y consciente.

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“…Information on the nutritional value of the papunha (also known as the pejibaye) palm is given in Johannessen (1967), Hunter (1969), and Zapata (1972). The first of those authors reports on the composition of 26 samples of fruit, all taken from trees growing in Costa Rica and Honduras, near the northernmost extension of the range of this tree.…”

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The Abundance of Protein in Amazonia: A Reply to Gross

Beckerman

1979

American Anthropologist

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A critical examination of Gross's hypothesis that aboriginal Amazonian populations were limited to low levels by lack of adequate protein resources concludes that (1) evidence either f o r or against the hypothesis is still in short supply; (2) the role of vegetcble protein in abonginal diets needs much more attention and may ultimately overthrow the proteinlimitation hypothesis; (3) the abundance of animal protein in the tropical forest has likely also been underestimated; (4) the abundance of people in precontact Amazonia may well have been underestimated as well. [Amazonia, protein, cultural ecology, limiting factors, population]. GROSS (1975) HAS ARGUED that the size, permanence, and density of aboriginal settlements in the Amazon basin were and are limited to low levels-for the most part the levels manifested today by the surviving indigenous peoples -by insufficient protein resources. This paper takes issue with that claim and submits that the evidence to support Gross's conclusion is fragmentary and ambiguous enough to permit a contrary claim: that, currently at least, protein sources may be underexploited in the Hylea. (Gross has cast the argument in the best possible way by directing attention not only to the broad category "protein" but, more specifically, to the crucial matter of the relative proportions of the essential amino acids, which determine the quality of any protein in human nutrition. That vital information is utterly lacking for many of the protein foods discussed below, but if the issue is raised in anthropological circles, we may eventually gain the missing data.) I want to stress at the outset that I am not hostile to the idea of protein limitation of human populations per se. In fact, I have argued (Beckerman 1977) that precisely such a mechanism as Gross suggests did indeed limit the size of the populations inhabiting some of the Polynesian islands. The difference is that in the Polynesian case we have (1) a situation in which the flora and fauna are notably impoverished, for good biogeographical reaons; (2) a situation that therefore provides us with a good a przori reason to suspect that a limitation of resource alternatives may have been an important factor in the population dynamics of the people involved; (3) 533

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The lack of acceptance of the pejibaye palm and a relative comparison of its productivity to that of maize

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Cultivated Neotropical Palm Bactris gasipaes (Arecaceae) with its Wild Relatives Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Cultivated Neotropical Palm Bactris gasipaes (Arecaceae) with its Wild Relatives Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms

Agricultura forestal indígena en la Amazonía Peruana: mantenimiento Bora de los cultivos

The Abundance of Protein in Amazonia: A Reply to Gross

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