In Amazonia : A Natural History /

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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
Autor principal: Raffles, Hugh, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Natural history.
Manners and customs.
Ethnoecology.
Ethnology.
Estuarine ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Sciences naturelles > Bresil > Igarape Guariba.
Écologie des estuaires > Bresil > Igarape Guariba.
Ethnoecologie > Bresil > Igarape Guariba.
Ethnologie > Bresil > Igarape Guariba.
Natural history > Amazon River Region.
Natural history > Brazil > Igarape Guariba.
Estuarine ecology > Amazon River Region.
Estuarine ecology > Brazil > Igarape Guariba.
Ethnoecology > Amazon River Region.
Ethnoecology > Brazil > Igarape Guariba.
Ethnology > Amazon River Valley.
Ethnology > Brazil > Igarape Guariba.
Brazil > Igarape Guariba.
Amazon River Valley.
Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Igarape Guariba (Brazil) > Social life and customs.
Amazon River Region > History.
Igarape Guariba (Brazil) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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 (320 pages): illustrations, photographs
ISBN:9781400865277

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