ABSTRACT

Agriculture and foraging practices compete with wildlife in many ways. Vested interests in particular land-use strategies are reflected in the way people organize themselves to use natural resources. Their rights to and jurisdiction over these resources are enveloped in their social organization and culturally defined ways of making their livelihood. In this chapter, brideservice and settlement patterns are shown to reflect the pervasiveness of this competition, in what might appear to be unrelated social factors. Also, population characteristics, and the dynamics and principles of household and cluster organization and distribution, are shown to be important for the analysis of wildlife resource use. These factors influence community projects and the distribution of household dividends earned from wildlife, which are mechanisms proposed by CAMPFIRE for the sustainable use of wildlife.