Mapuche Resilience and Adaptation to Arid Uplands in NW Patagonia, Argentina

摘要: The Mapuche communities of the Argentinean extra-Andean Patagonia overcome extreme living conditions by applying subsistence strategy based on utilization different ethno-ecological units corresponding with altitudinal gradients. Summer cattle transhumance, known locally as “veranada,” a seasonal movement people and animals to pre-Andean forest, serves an example specialized adaptation arid conditions, which helps them cope this hostile environment in lowlands This chapter demonstrates quantitatively how populations environments are at less risk losing their capacity for alimentary self-sufficiency if they do not abandon traditional ways using environment.