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The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. This study documents their rich knowledge of the environment, and explains how technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. It combines a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, and contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.
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