Some other Amazonians : perspectives on modern Amazonia / edited by Stephen Nugent and Mark Harris.

Other author Harris, Mark, 1969 March 12-
Other author Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Institute for the Study of the Americas, [2004?]
Descriptionix, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Ethnic groups--Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region--Social conditions. --20th century.
Amazon River Region--Civilization.
Amazon River Region--Rural conditions.

Contents "The Roça legacy": land use and kinship dynamics in Nogueira, an Amazonian community of the middle Solimões region / Deborah de Magalhães Lima -- Black peoples of the Trombetas river: peasantry and ethnicity in the Brazilian Amazon / Rosa Elizabeth Acevedo Marin and Edna Maria Ramos de Castro -- Social and economic change in Amazonia: the case of ornamental fish collection in the Rio Negro basin / Gregory Prang -- Peasants on the floodplain: some elements of the "agrarian question" in riverine Amazonia / Mark Harris -- (Some) other Amazonians: Jewish communities in the lower Amazon / Stephen Nugent -- Malineza (Evil): an Amazonian concept / Raymundo Heraldo Maues -- The peasantry and the church on the Brazilian frontier: the significance of the alliance and its repercussions / Neide Esterci -- Of rum and the Amazon: the traditional sugar-cane industry and its demise / Scott Douglas Anderson -- Regatão and Caboclo: itinerant traders and smallholder resistance in the Brazilian Amazon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-211).
ISBN1900039559 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN560.A43 S64 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold