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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Main Author: Raffles, Hugh, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. In Amazonia; CHAPTER 2. Dissolution of the Elements: The Floodplain, 11,000 BP-2002; CHAPTER 3. In the Flow of Becoming: Igarape Guariba, 1941-1996; CHAPTER 4. A Countrey Never Sackt: Guiana, 1587-1631; CHAPTER 5. The Uses of Butterflies: Bates of the Amazons, 1848-1859; CHAPTER 6. The Dreamlife of Ecology: South Pará, 1999; CHAPTER 7. Fluvial Intimacies: Amapá, 1995-1996; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CREDITS; INDEX.

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