Primitive Polluters: Semang Impact on the Malaysian Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem (Volume 76) (Anthropological Papers Series) - Softcover

Book 97 of 98: Anthropological Papers

Rambo, A. Terry

 
9780915703043: Primitive Polluters: Semang Impact on the Malaysian Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem (Volume 76) (Anthropological Papers Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0915703041 ISBN 13: 9780915703043
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY, 1985

Synopsis

In the 1970s, A. Terry Rambo conducted fieldwork in Peninsular Malaysia with a group of Semang people. The community he studied had a seminomadic lifestyle: at times they stayed in houses or lean-tos in a village, and at other times they foraged in the surrounding rain forest for food. Rambo’s goal was to assess this group’s impact on the local environment. He found that, through domestic fires and cigarette smoking, they caused significant air pollution at the household level, but because of their small population size, they did not have much of an ecological impact.

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Publisher
U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0915703041
ISBN 13 
9780915703043
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
104