Nature and culture in Central Brazil: Panara natural resource concepts and tropical forest conservation. (Special Issue: People in parks - beyond the debate: achieving conservation in human-inhabited protected areas.)

摘要

The Panara, a Ge tribe of Central Brazil, were nearly exterminated when the government opened a road through the center of their territory in the early 1970s. The survivors were relocated, and 15 yr later returned to reoccupy their remaining territory. The story of the Panara is representative of the Brazilian Indians of the Amazon, who since the 1970s have won recognition of their rights to more than 1 million km2 or 20% of the Amazon - the largest expanse of tropical forest under any form of protection in the world. The article examines how Panara natural resource concepts have informed this process of dislocation and return, as well as their implications for the long-term sustainability of the Panara territory.