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Science 30 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4422, pp. 1043 - 1050
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4422.1043
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Ecology and Acculturation Among Native Peoples of Central Brazil

Daniel R. Gross 1, George Eiten 2, Nancy M. Flowers 3, Francisca M. Leoi 4, Madeline Lattman Ritter 3, and Dennis W. Werner 3

1 Associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York 10021
2 Professor in the Department of Botany, University of Brasilia, 70910 Brasflia, Brazil
3 Ph.D. Program in Anthropology of the Graduate School, City University of New York, New York 10036
4 São Paulo, Brazil

Simple exposure to Western goods may not be a sufficient explanation of why isolated village communities increase their participation in external market economies. The degree of market participation by four native villages in central Brazil is related to the difficulty of making a living from slash-and-burn subsistence agriculture as measured by the ratio of labor input to food output.


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