Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adams, Cristina (Editor), Murrieta, Rui (Editor), Neves, Walter (Editor), Harris, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Medicine.; Conservation biology.; Ecology.; Sustainable development.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; History, general.; Sustainable Development.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Amazonia is never quite what it seems. Despite regular attention in the media and numerous academic studies the Brazilian Amazon is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. Often left invisible are the families who are making a living from the rivers and fores...

Table of Contents:

• Identity, History and Society
• Utopias and Dystopias in the Amazonian Social Landscape
• Landscape Transformation and Language Change: A Case Study in Amazonian Historical Ecology
• Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries
• ‘Sempre Ajeitando’ (Always Adjusting): An Amazonian Way of Being in Time1
• Sustainability and Development Policies
• Traditional Peoples: Introduction to the Political Ecology Critique of a Notion
• The Domestic Economy in Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas State
• Patterns of Resource Use by Caboclo Communities in the Middle-Lower Amazon
• Resource Management
• Agriculture Intensification, Economic Identity, and Shared Invisibility in Amazonian Peasantry: Caboclos and Colonists in Comparative Perspective
• The Use of and Access to Forest Resources: The Caboclos of the Lower Amazon and Their Socio-Cultural Attributes
• Gender and Daily Life
• Women, Gender Relations and Decision-Making in Caboclo Households in the Amazon Estuary
• ‘I Love Flowers’: Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil
• Diet and Health
• Bread of the Land: The Invisibility of Manioc in the Amazon
• Socio-Ecology of Health and Disease: The Effects of Invisibility on the Caboclo Populations of The Amazon
• Conclusion.