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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Organ. 2014 Summer;73(2):162–173. doi: 10.17730/humo.73.2.31nl363qgr30n017

Table 3.

Covariates of plant use knowledge among Tsimane’ indigenous peoples (n=484).

Models

[A] [B] [C]

Cultural change
Detachment index -.194***
(.048)
-.149**
(.061)
-.153**
(.060)
Schooling .064
(.098)
.172
(.125)
.222*
(.123)
Travel to town -.059***
(.017)
-.048*
(.024)
-.053**
(.024)
Tsimane’ monolingual -1.514
(1.073)
-1.845
(1.31)
-1.46
(1.12)

Cultural Consensus ^ 2,38*
(1.30)
^
Average cultural competence ^ ^ 11.6***
(3.39)
Remoteness ^ .547
(.424)
.371
(.406)

Control
Age .153
(.118)
.161
(.078)
.171*
(.104)
Age square -.001
(.001)
-.001
(.001)
-.001
(.001)
Rice sales -.0001
(.0003)
.0001
(.0004)
.0002
(.0004)
Wage from loggers .0007
(.0007)
.0009
(.0008)
.0008
(.0007)
Household size .222*
(.116)
.172
(.115)
.171
(.114)

R2 0.10 0.15 0.20

[A] Model without controls for village effects. [B] Model including village cultural consensus. [C] Model including average cultural competence. All models are OLS regressions with robust standard errors (in parenthesis) and adjusted for clustering on village of residency. Regressions include constant (not shown). *, **, and ***: statistically significant at the 90%, 95%, and 99% level, respectively.