Wagering the Land |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
1 INTRODUCTION |
PART I PREWAR BUGUIAS |
2 Food, Fuel, and Fiber: Human Environmental Relations in Prewar Buguias |
3 Social Relations: Power and Labor |
4 Religion: The Role of the Ancestors |
5 Commercial and Political Relations |
Interregnum: The War |
PART II VITALITY AND VULNERABILITY: FLUCTUATIONS IN THE POSTWAR ECONOMY, 1946–1986 |
• | Introduction |
6 The Establishment of Commercial Vegetable Agriculture |
7 The Sociology and Economics of Vegetable Production, 1946–1972 |
8 Economic and Ecological Crisis |
• | Introduction |
Boom, Bust, and Readjustment |
Demography |
Deforestation |
Water Shortages, Erosion, and Biocides |
• | Water Shortages |
• | Erosion |
• | Biocides, Human Health, and Faunal Destruction |
The Vegetable Frontier |
9 Social Conflict and Political Struggle |
10 Religion in Modern Buguias |
11 Conclusion: Understanding Buguias's Aberrant Development |
Notes |
GLOSSARY |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
INDEX |