
Primitive Polluters
Semang Impact on the Malaysian Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem
A. Terry Rambo(Author)
University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Publications Department (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. January 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-915703-04-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Publishing group
The University of Michigan Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-915703-04-3 (9780915703043)
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