Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest /

Amazonia is never quite what it seems. Despite regular attention in the media and numerous academic studies the Brazilian Amazon is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. Often left invisible are the families who are making a living from the rivers and fores...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Adams, Cristina (Editor ), Murrieta, Rui S. S. (Editor ), Neves, Walter A. (Editor ), Harris, Mark (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Temas:
Social sciences.
Anthropology.
History.
Sustainability.
Conservation biology.
Ecology .
Medical sciences.
Society.
Conservation Biology.
Health Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Identity, History and Society
  • Utopias and Dystopias in the Amazonian Social Landscape
  • Landscape Transformation and Language Change: A Case Study in Amazonian Historical Ecology
  • Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries
  • 'Sempre Ajeitando' (Always Adjusting): An Amazonian Way of Being in Time1
  • Sustainability and Development Policies
  • Traditional Peoples: Introduction to the Political Ecology Critique of a Notion
  • The Domestic Economy in Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas State
  • Patterns of Resource Use by Caboclo Communities in the Middle-Lower Amazon
  • Resource Management
  • Agriculture Intensification, Economic Identity, and Shared Invisibility in Amazonian Peasantry: Caboclos and Colonists in Comparative Perspective
  • The Use of and Access to Forest Resources: The Caboclos of the Lower Amazon and Their Socio-Cultural Attributes
  • Gender and Daily Life
  • Women, Gender Relations and Decision-Making in Caboclo Households in the Amazon Estuary
  • 'I Love Flowers': Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil
  • Diet and Health
  • Bread of the Land: The Invisibility of Manioc in the Amazon
  • Socio-Ecology of Health and Disease: The Effects of Invisibility on the Caboclo Populations of The Amazon
  • Conclusion.

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