ABSTRACT
Indigenous societies have been living in Amazonia for unknown millennia, during which time they developed their own strategies for management of forests and campo-cerrados. Serious investigation of indigenous ethnobiological/ ethnoecological knowledge is rare, but recent studies (Alcorn 1981a; Carneiro 1983; Denevan et al. 1984; Frechione 1981; Hames 1979, 1980; Kerr and Posey 1984; Parker et al. 1983; and others) show that indigenous knowledge of ecological zones, natural resources, agriculture, aquaculture, forest and game management is far more sophisticated than previously assumed. Furthermore, this knowledge offers new models for development that are both ecologically and socially sound (Posey 1983e; Posey et al. 1984).
