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The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world''s last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raffles, Hugh, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Ethnology > Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
Ethnology > Amazon River Valley.
Ethnoecology > Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
Ethnoecology > Amazon River Region.
Estuarine ecology > Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
Estuarine ecology > Amazon River Region.
Natural history > Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
Natural history > Amazon River Region.
Ethnologie > Brésil > Igarapé Guariba.
Ethnoécologie > Brésil > Igarapé Guariba.
Écologie des estuaires > Brésil > Igarapé Guariba.
Sciences naturelles > Brésil > Igarapé Guariba.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Estuarine ecology.
Ethnology.
Ethnoecology.
Manners and customs.
Natural history.
Igarapé Guariba (Brazil) > History.
Amazon River Region > History.
Igarapé Guariba (Brazil) > Social life and customs.
Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Valley.
Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world''s last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles weaves.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400865277
1400865271

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