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This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi-year, systematic, empirical assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well-being changes over time in a rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.

Using data compiled by the Tsimaneâ Amazonian Panel Study (2002-2010) which monitored change in Tsimaneâ communities, this book aims to analyse important social and economic outcomes in a farming and foraging society of native Amazonians in Bolivia. It uses multidisciplinary methods through real longitudinal research to bring together three themes: well-being, economic inequalities, and the fate of Indigenous People in small-scale rural societies of the Global South to ask the question 'Why is a society that faces material deprivations, considerable economic inequalities, and declining material standards of living so happy?'

This book aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the measurement of well-being and how to track its changes, providing a platfo

Researching WellBeing in an Indigenous Amazon

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 4 January 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032951287
      978-1032951287
      ISBN-10 1032951281
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi-year, systematic, empirical assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well-being changes over time in a rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.

      Using data compiled by the Tsimaneâ Amazonian Panel Study (2002-2010) which monitored change in Tsimaneâ communities, this book aims to analyse important social and economic outcomes in a farming and foraging society of native Amazonians in Bolivia. It uses multidisciplinary methods through real longitudinal research to bring together three themes: well-being, economic inequalities, and the fate of Indigenous People in small-scale rural societies of the Global South to ask the question 'Why is a society that faces material deprivations, considerable economic inequalities, and declining material standards of living so happy?'

      This book aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the measurement of well-being and how to track its changes, providing a platfo

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