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Amazon peasant societies in a changing environment : political ecology, invisibility and modernity in the rainforest / [edited] by Cristina Adams ... [and others].
Penn Museum Library F2659.C32 S6313 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas : Modernidade e Invisibilidade (2002 : Universidade de São Paulo)
- Standardized Title:
- Sociedades caboclas amazônicas. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Caboclos (Brazilian people).
- Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Economic conditions--Congresses.
- Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Social life and customs--Congresses.
- Peasants--Brazil.
- Peasants.
- Ethnology.
- Manners and customs.
- Economic conditions.
- Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Social conditions.
- Brazil.
- Ethnology--Brazil.
- Ethnology--Amazon River Region.
- Peasants--Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River Region.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 358 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Political ecology, invisibility and modernity in the rainforest
- Place of Publication:
- [Dordrecht] ; London : Springer, [2009]
- Contents:
- Utopias and dystopias in the Amazonian social landscape / Stephen Nugent
- Landscape transformation and language change : a case study in Amazonian historical ecology / William Balée
- Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas : historical analysis of a process of miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th centuries / Décio de Alencar Guzmán
- 'Sempre ajeitando' (always adjusting) : an Amazonian way of being in time / Mark Harris
- Traditional peoples : introduction to the political ecology critique of a notion / Henyo Barretto Filho
- The domestic economy in Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas State / Deborah de Magalhães Lima
- Patterns of resource use by Caboclo communities in the middle-lower Amazon / Fábio de Castro
- Agriculture intensification, economic identity, and shared invisibility in Amazonian peasantry : Caboclos and colonists in comparative perspective / Eduardo Brondizio
- The use of and access to forest resources : the Caboclos of the lower Amazon and their socio-cultural attributes / Célia Futemma
- Women, gender relations and decision-making in Caboclo households in the Amazon estuary / Andrea Siqueira
- 'I love flowers' : home gardens, aesthetics and gender roles in a riverine Caboclo community in the lower Amazon, Brazil / Rui Murrieta and Antoinette WinklerPrins
- Bread of the land : the invisibility of manioc in the Amazon / Cristina Adams ... [et al.]
- Socio-ecology of health and disease : the effects of invisibility on the Caboclo populations of the Amazon / Hilton Silva.
- Notes:
- "Translated and updated version of: Adams, C., Murrieta R., & Neves, W.A. (2006). Sociedades caboclas amazônicas : modernidade e Invisibilidade (1a ed.). São Paulo: Annablume"--T.p. verso.
- Papers presented at the workshop "Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas : Modernidade e Invisibilidade," held in June 2002 at Universidade de São Paulo. Cf. pref., acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781402092824
- 1402092822
- OCLC:
- 276224584
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