Of Lost Civilization and Primitive Tribes, Amazonia: A Reply to Meggers
Michael J. Heckenberger, James B. Peterson, and Eduardo Góes Neves
Abstract
Meggers's critique of views presented by DeBoer et al. (1996), Wüst and Barreto (1999), and Heckenberger et al. (1999) in Latin American Antiquity misrepresents these authors and others. Her critiques, largely directed at the present authors, obfuscate fundamental points raised regarding the nature and variability of cultural formations and economic patterns in Amazonia. By conflating indigenous resource management systems, which we discuss, with mechanized development strategies of the modern world, she creates an unnecessarily polemical atmosphere for debate.
La crítica de Meggers sobre los puntos de vista presentados por DeBoer et al.
(1996), Wüst and Barreto (1999) y Heckenberger et al. (1999) en Latin American Antiquity, dirigida principalmente a éstos autores, confunde asuntos fundamentales hechos en lo que se trata de la naturaleza y variabilidad de las formaciones culturales y los modelos económicos de la Amazonía. Al entremezclar nuestro tratamiento de los sistemas indígenas del manejo de los recursos con las estrategias de desarrollo mecanizadas del mundo moderno ella da lugar a una atmósfera polémica, innecesaria, para el debate.
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