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Aimed at economic anthropologists and scholars of tropical human ecology, this monograph details the food provisioning system of the maritime Guaymi of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in the rural Caribbean of Panama and attempts to situate the Guaymi within a larger theoretical context related to non-domesticated provisioning and suggests how anthropologists should think about people who engage in foraging activity, but not exclusively.The maritime Guaymi have for decades been identified as subsistence farmers but have also hunted and fished the forests and seas to gain essential and…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Aimed at economic anthropologists and scholars of
tropical human ecology, this monograph details the
food provisioning system of the maritime Guaymi of
the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in the rural
Caribbean of Panama and attempts to situate the
Guaymi within a larger theoretical context
related to non-domesticated provisioning and
suggests how anthropologists should think about
people who engage in foraging activity, but not
exclusively.The maritime Guaymi have for decades
been identified as subsistence farmers but have
also hunted and fished the forests and seas
to gain essential and substantial items of
sustenance. This diachronic study details
multiple facets of the Guaymi food production system
and proposes that micro-economic provisioning
clusters exist and serve as adaptive mechanisms.The
discovery and examination of the maritime Guaymi
food production system informs on a larger
theoretical construct concerning the concept
of part-time foragers .Using the Guaymi as an
ethnographic example, a foraging continuum is
identified and assessed and perspectives on how
anthropology can begin to evaluate this sustenance
group is proposed.
Autorenporträt
Mark Seifert is an independent anthropologist and educator
living in the metropolitan Boston area with his wife and two
children. His academic specialties include economic
anthropology, sustainable development, human foraging activity,
and People of the Caribbean.