Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-110). Also available as electronic resource via PDF.

Thesis (M.A.). / Written for the Dept. of Geography. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/08/04). Includes bibliographical references.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979. / Bibliography: leaves 176-185. / Microfiche. / xi, 185 leaves ill. 29 cm

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第22896号 / 農博第2439号 / 新制||農||1083(附属図書館) / 学位論文||R3||N5316(農学部図書室) / 京都大学大学院農学研究科森林科学専攻 / (主査)教授 德地 直子, 教授 神﨑 護, 教授 吉岡 崇仁 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

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O sistema agrícola itinerante (SAI), uma das formas mais antigas de agricultura, continua sendo praticado pelas comunidades quilombolas do Vale do Ribeira-SP. Entretanto, as atuais restrições da legislação ambiental brasileira, a maior integração ao mercado, e a influência de instituições e políticas públicas, estão entre os principais motivos da diminuição desta prática. A produção para o consumo doméstico do SAI está sendo substituída pela agricultura permanente e comercial de pupunheira para palmito, apoiada por incentivos governamentais como créditos financeiros e assistência técnica especializada. Este projeto teve como objetivo avaliar a produtividade entre os diferentes sistemas de cultivo e entre áreas submetidas a diferentes tempos de pousio, discutindo os motivos e os impactos desta transição, sua sustentabilidade, assim como os impactos econômicos para as comunidades. Utilizamos a unidade doméstica como unidade de análise para a organização social do trabalho; para cada atividade reconstituímos o itinerário técnico através de entrevistas semiestruturadas e visitas a campo; e para estimar a capacidade de remuneração dos diferentes sistemas agrícolas utilizamos o cálculo do valor agregado líquido. Durante onze meses acompanhamos a implantação das roças para consumo doméstico e o manejo do cultivo permanente de pupunheira para palmito. Os resultados mostram que há uma tendência de que em capoeiras mais jovens (entre 10-15 anos de pousio) o tempo destinado ao trabalho seja menor quando comparado com o tempo destinado ao trabalho em capoeiras avançadas (com mais de 25 anos de pousio). Entretanto, devido ao tamanho reduzido da amostra não foi possível testar sua significância. Já para a avaliação da produtividade entre os diferentes sistemas, a agricultura permanente se mostrou mais eficiente em termos de renda e no uso do trabalho, do que o SAI. Entretanto, ao considerarmos a multifuncionalidade da agricultura, o SAI desempenha um papel não só de produção de alimentos e fibras, mas também é parte de um complexo de relações socioambientais que incluem a manutenção da diversidade cultural, da agrobiodiversidade e da preservação ambiental. / The shifting cultivation system (SCS), one of the oldest forms of agriculture, is still practiced by quilombola communities in the Vale do Ribeira - SP. However, current restrictions of the Brazilian environmental legislation, increased market integration, and the influence of institutions and public policies, are among the main reasons for the decrease in this practice. The production of SCS for domestic consumption is being replaced by permanent and commercial cultivation of peach palm, supported by government incentives such as financial claims and specialized technical assistance. This project aimed to assess the productivity of the different cultivation systems and between areas under different fallow lenghts, discussing the reasons and the impacts of this transition, its sustainability and economic impacts for communities. The household was used as the unit of analysis for social work organization; for each activity we recomposed the technical itinerary through semi-structured interviews and field visits; to estimate the remuneration capacity of the different farming systems used the added net value. During eleven months we monitored the implementation of the cultivated fields for domestic consumption and the management of permanent cultivation of peach palm. Our results showa tendency for lower worktime in fields with younger fallows (10-15 years) when compared to older ones (25 years).However, due to the small sample size after the abandonment of the fields by some farmers it was not possible to test its significance. As for the evaluation of productivity between the two different systems, permanent agriculture was more efficient in terms of income and the use of labor than SCS. However, when the multifunctionality of agriculture is considered, SCS plays a role not only in food and fiber production, but is also part of a complex socio-environmental relations that include the maintenance of cultural diversity, agrobiodiversity and environmental preservation.

Graduation date: 1996

This thesis explores how Katuic-speaking indigenous groups in the Central Annamitic Cordillera of Vietnam and Laos understand their environment – hills, streams and forest. Katuic eco-cosmology assumes that the natural landscape is imbued with spirit agents, with whom people must continuously communicate lest misfortune will strike and their livelihoods fail. The thesis posits the hypothesis that these spirit beliefs, and a variety of taboo notions accompanying them, can be interpreted as expressions of a complex socio-environmental adaptation. Today, the indigenous groups in the study region are confronted with a massive development- and modernisation push on two fronts – that of the global development industry on the one hand, and the implementation of national development policies and programs as part of the high-modernist state project in communist Vietnam and Laos, on the other. A second objective of the thesis, then, is to examine the effects of this multi-layered and multi-scaled confrontation on indigenous cosmology, livelihood and landscape. It is argued, this confrontation at the development frontier can be conceived of as an interface between different ontologies or reality posits – one animist, articulated in a relational stance towards the landscape; the other, a naturalist or rationalist ontology, expressed as an objectivist stance towards nature and embodied in the high-modernist development schemes and programs unfolding in the region with the aim of re-engineering its indigenous societies and exploiting its natural resources.      Large parts of the Central Annamites were severely impacted by the Vietnam War; uncounted numbers of minority people were killed, or had their villages destroyed or relocated while defoliants, bombs, and forest fires ravaged the landscape. In the decades that followed the war, the entire social and natural landscape has been reshaped by national development policies and the modernist visions that underpin them. The thesis attempts to understand this physical and cultural transformation of the landscape, focusing particularly on the gradual breakdown of the complex indigenous socio-religious institutions that appear to have played an important functional role in maintaining the pre-war structure of the landscape. The thesis is based primarily on fieldwork carried out between 2004 and 2009 in the provinces of Quảng Nam and Thừa Thiên–Huế in Vietnam and Sekong in Laos.