| Primitive Polluters: Semang Impact on the Malaysian Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem Volume 76 Contributor(s): Rambo, A. Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0915703041 ISBN-13: 9780915703043 Publisher: U of M Museum Anthro Archaeology OUR PRICE: $7.43 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 304.208 |
| LCCN: 87620769 |
| Series: Anthropological Papers |
| Physical Information: 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |