Editors:
- Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of different aspects of Amazonian societies from health to history
- Empirical research based on long term fieldwork and in-depth analysis from the latest Amazonian studies
- Discusses political aspects of environmentalism
- Forges new understanding of Brazilian Amazonia
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Identity, History and Society
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Sustainability and Development Policies
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Diet and Health
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About this book
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 forests of the region. Broadly characterizing these people as peasants Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment seeks to bring together research by anthropologists, historians, political ecologists and biologists.
A new paradigm emerges which helps understand the way in which Amazonian modernity has developed. This book addresses a comprehensive range of questions from the politics of conservation and sustainable development to the organization of women’s work and the diet and health of Amazonian people. Apart from offering an analysis of a neglected aspect of Amazonia this collection represents a unique interdisciplinary exercise on the nature of one of the most beguiling regions of the world.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This edition is an updated and translated version of Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas: Modernidade e Invisibilidade, published in Portuguese in 2006 … . The editors must be praised for bringing together theoretical essays and empirical studies in a complementary way. … it will likely be of great interest to geographers occupied with political ecology, human-environment interactions, and rural smallholder studies. The volume constitutes an invigorating addition to U.S.- and Europe-based Amazonian research … .” (Mario Cardozo, The Professional Geographer, Vol. 62 (3), August, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
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School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Cristina Adams
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Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Rui Murrieta, Walter Neves
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Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews Fife, United Kingdom
Mark Harris
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment
Book Subtitle: Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest
Editors: Cristina Adams, Rui Murrieta, Walter Neves, Mark Harris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9282-4Published: 12 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8099-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9283-1Published: 02 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 358
Additional Information: Original Portuguese edition published by Annablume, Sâo Paulo, 2006
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Anthropology, History, general, Sustainable Development, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Medicine/Public Health, general