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Author Raffles, Hugh, 1958- author.

Title In Amazonia : a natural history / Hugh Raffles
Published Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2002
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Description 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. In Amazonia; CHAPTER 2. Dissolution of the Elements: The Floodplain, 11,000 BP-2002; CHAPTER 3. In the Flow of Becoming: Igarapé Guariba, 1941-1996; CHAPTER 4. A Countrey Never Sackt: Guiana, 1587-1631; CHAPTER 5. The Uses of Butterflies: Bates of the Amazons, 1848-1859; CHAPTER 6. The Dreamlife of Ecology: South Pará, 1999; CHAPTER 7. Fluvial Intimacies: Amapá, 1995-1996; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CREDITS; INDEX
Summary The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world''s last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles weaves
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Brazil -- Igarapé Guariba
Ethnology -- Amazon River Valley
Ethnoecology -- Brazil -- Igarapé Guariba
Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region
Estuarine ecology -- Brazil -- Igarapé Guariba
Estuarine ecology -- Amazon River Region
Natural history -- Brazil -- Igarapé Guariba
Natural history -- Amazon River Region
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Estuarine ecology
Ethnology
Ethnoecology
Manners and customs
Natural history
Igarapé Guariba (Brazil) -- History
Amazon River Region -- History
Igarapé Guariba (Brazil) -- Social life and customs
Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs
Amazon River Region
Amazon River Valley
Brazil -- Igarapé Guariba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002016909
ISBN 9781400865277
1400865271