How Does Cultural Change Affect Indigenous Peoples' Hunting Activity? An Empirical Study among the Tsimane' in the Bolivian Amazon

摘要: Wildlife hunting is an important economic activity that contributes to the subsistence of indigenous peoples and maintenance their cultural identity. Changes in peoples' ways life affect way they manage ecosystems resources around them, including wildlife populations. This paper explores relationship between change, or detachment from traditional culture, behaviour among Tsimane', group Bolivian Amazon. We interviewed 344 hunters 39 villages estimate degree change them. used multilevel analyses assess relationships three different proxies for at individual level (schooling, visits a market town, tradition), following two independent variables: 1) probability engaging (i.e., activity) 2) efficiency with catch per unit effort (CPUE). found statistically significant negative association schooling activity. Hunting (CPUE biomass/km) was positively associated when holding other co-variates model constant. Other than biophysical factors, such as game abundance, also conditioned by social factors (e.g., schooling) shape hunters' system impel them engage deter doing so.