Village fissioning in Amazônia: a critique of monocausal determinism

Authors

  • Eduardo Goes Neves Universidade de São Paulo. Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1995.109235

Keywords:

Ecological determinism - Cultural change in Amazonia - Domestic mode of production

Abstract

Deterministic theories proposing the existence of limiting factors to cultural development in Amazonia are criticized here. An alternative hypothesis based on the concept of “domestic mode of production” is suggested based on the discussion of two case studies.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

1995-12-18

Issue

No. 5 (1995)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 1995 Eduardo Goes Neves

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

NEVES, Eduardo Goes. Village fissioning in Amazônia: a critique of monocausal determinism. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 5, p. 195–209, 1995. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1995.109235. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revmae/article/view/109235.. Acesso em: 16 may. 2024.