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Author:
Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas : Modernidade e Invisibilidade (2002 : Universidade de São Paulo)
Title:
Amazon peasant societies in a changing environment : political ecology, invisibility and modernity in the rainforest / [edited] by Cristina Adams ... [et al.].
Publisher:
Springer,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xxiii, 358 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Social conditions--Congresses.
Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Economic conditions--Congresses.
Caboclos (Brazilian people)--Social life and customs--Congresses.
Peasantry--Brazil.
Ethnology--Brazil.
Ethnology--Amazon River Region.
Peasantry--Amazon River Region.
Other Authors:
Adams, Cristina.
Other Titles:
Sociedades caboclas amazônicas. English
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.
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.
ISBN:
1402092822 (hbk.)
9781402092824 (hbk.)
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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