The Struggle for Amazon Town : : Gurupá Revisited /

The Struggle for Amazon Town : : Gurupá Revisited / / Richard Pace.

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Massive changes have engulfed the Brazilian Amazon region in the forty years since Charles Wagley’s landmark study, Amazon Town, was first published. In his engaging restudy, Richard Pace explores today’s "Amazon Town" (Gurupá), where development efforts have left little untouched, little...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Pace, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1998
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: STUDYING AMAZON TOWN AGAIN
  • 2 AN AMAZON COMMUNITY
  • 3 THE DEMISE OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN
  • 4 THE RISE OF THE INDIGENOUS CAMPESINATO
  • 5 REPEATING HISTORY? ECONOMIC TRENDS, POST-1964
  • 6 LABOR AND LAND IN A CHANGING ECONOMY
  • 7 ADAPTATIONS TO POVERTY
  • 8 THE RISE AND FALL OF AUTHORITARIAN POLITICS
  • 9 THE POLITICS OF RELIGION
  • 10 CONCLUSION: CONFRONTING THE BICHO
  • ACRONYMS & ABRREVIATIONS
  • GLOSSARY
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE BOOK

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