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1. Dung as an essential resource in a highland Peruvian community

Author

Winterhalder, Bruce, Larsen, Robert, and Thomas, R Brooke

Subjects
human ecology, Andes, agro-ecology, animal manure, fertilizer, llama dung, Anthropology, Ecology
Abstract

The present paper examines the use of dung for two essential human resources, fuel and fertilizer, in a highland community of southern Peru. The limited energy availability and the poor soils of the region, primarily the result of high-altitude climate and topography, necessitate this practice. Alternatives to dung use are costly or unavailable. Grazing herbivores transform the widely dispersed puna grasses into a compact and easily gathered source of energy and nutrients. Native choice among available dungs corresponds to their qualities: sheep dung, richest in nutrients, is applied as fertilizer; llama and cattle dungs, each with a high caloric value, are burned as fuels. Dung use is interpreted as an energetically efficient response to the highland environment and as central to the subsistence pattern in the area. © 1974 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Published
1974

2. Dung as an essential resource in a highland Peruvian community

Author

Winterhalder, B, Winterhalder, B, Larsen, R, Thomas, RB, Winterhalder, B, Winterhalder, B, Larsen, R, and Thomas, RB

Abstract

The present paper examines the use of dung for two essential human resources, fuel and fertilizer, in a highland community of southern Peru. The limited energy availability and the poor soils of the region, primarily the result of high-altitude climate and topography, necessitate this practice. Alternatives to dung use are costly or unavailable. Grazing herbivores transform the widely dispersed puna grasses into a compact and easily gathered source of energy and nutrients. Native choice among available dungs corresponds to their qualities: sheep dung, richest in nutrients, is applied as fertilizer; llama and cattle dungs, each with a high caloric value, are burned as fuels. Dung use is interpreted as an energetically efficient response to the highland environment and as central to the subsistence pattern in the area. © 1974 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Published
1974

3. Dung as an essential resource in a highland Peruvian community

Author

Robert Larsen, R. Brooke Thomas, and Bruce Winterhalder

Subjects
Herbivore, Resource (biology), animal manure, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Agroforestry, Subsistence agriculture, Andes, agro-ecology, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), engineering.material, fertilizer, Nutrient, Geography, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), human ecology, Anthropology, Grazing, engineering, llama dung, Fertilizer
Abstract

The present paper examines the use of dung for two essential human resources, fuel and fertilizer, in a highland community of southern Peru. The limited energy availability and the poor soils of the region, primarily the result of high-altitude climate and topography, necessitate this practice. Alternatives to dung use are costly or unavailable. Grazing herbivores transform the widely dispersed puna grasses into a compact and easily gathered source of energy and nutrients. Native choice among available dungs corresponds to their qualities: sheep dung, richest in nutrients, is applied as fertilizer; llama and cattle dungs, each with a high caloric value, are burned as fuels. Dung use is interpreted as an energetically efficient response to the highland environment and as central to the subsistence pattern in the area. © 1974 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Published
1974

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