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Grenand Pierre. (1986). Histoire et milieu : quelques remarques sur les différents types d'insertion de l'homme dans le milieu en Guyane. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.Série A : Zoologie, 132, p. 317-322. ISBN 2-85653-133-4.

Titre du document
Histoire et milieu : quelques remarques sur les différents types d'insertion de l'homme dans le milieu en Guyane
Année de publication
1986
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Grenand Pierre
Source
Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.Série A : Zoologie, 1986, 132, p. 317-322 ISBN 2-85653-133-4
The historical conditions for the genesis of the shifting cultivation by Amerindians are reviewed. Before the European settlements in Guyanas, the historical events had no important effects upon the relationships between man activities and environment. Agriculture by slash and burn methods represented 40 to 50 per cent of the nutritional resources, but animal proteins capture (hunting and fishing) was sociallly valorized. With the Europeans arrival, agriculture became not only basis for substance of permanent settlements, but overall the sources for commercial products. After a period of fighting for land owning, especially near the coast, the soils have been cultivated with indian methods, but only around the permanent centers for administrative and military purposes. The conditions of the man actions upon the environment suffer then a drastic change. The creole type of agriculture is still dependent of economical orientation and space occupation which are external to it. The arises the question of the future patterns for a self-centred economy, giving up the ideology of a continuous progress and growing. (Resume d'auteur)
Plan de classement
Environnement, écologie générale [021ENVECO] ; Agriculture, système de production, machinisme agricole [098AGRIC]
Descripteurs
ENVIRONNEMENT ; FORET ; ANTHROPISATION ; HISTOIRE ; AGRICULTURE ; BRULIS ; HISTOIRE DU PEUPLEMENT
Description Géographique
GUYANE FRANCAISE
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B26711] ; Bondy ; Cayenne
Identifiant IRD
fdi:26711
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