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The article discusses on the effects of acculturation on agricultural intensification, scholars that have been debating the effects of markets on indigenous people's use of natural resources as part of a larger discourse on the economic development which the income affects the environment. Moreover, hypotheses was raised, with the empirical evidence from the four Amerindian societies in the rain forest of Honduras (Tawabka) and Bolivia (Mojeno, Yuracare, Chimane) examining the role of markets in the loss of old-growth rain forest.

The authors comment on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." They present queries about the models presented focusing on the Yang's sources of theoretical inspiration and not her use of them. They question whether Bataille's vision of capitalism is not itself caught in capitalism's self-mythologization as a desacralized and productivist space and worry about the slippage between the linguistic and the biological notion of hybridity.

The author comments on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." He states that religious practice and the ritual expenditure on spectacular performances of sacrifice and destruction are not activities usually associated with rapid regional economic development. He asserts that the paper did not unfold stories of religious squandering, general sacrifice, indulgent consumption and tomb building into the dominant narrative of global capitalist penetration. What Yang aimed to confront in her search for new conceptual vocabularies is the lingering influence of economic determinism.