Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant EconomyAmazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little serious attention. This volume aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It traces the development of caboclo societies and argues that much of the current discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society. |
Contents
| 1941 | |
| 1949 | |
| 1955 | |
Invisible Caboclos Visible Nature | 1967 |
Cabocloand the Anthropological Other | 1981 |
The Ecological | |
The Managed Ecosystem | |
The Social Object | |
Social Organization | |
Case Studies of Kindreds | |
Kindred Composition and the Transformation | |
The Caboclo Complex | |
The Japanese Complex | |
Merchant Capital Social Reproduction and Blockage | |
Maintaining the Image of Sustainable Development | |
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Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy Stephen Nugent No preview available - 2021 |
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açaí activities agriculture Amazon Amazon River Amazonia Amazonian development Amazonian peasantries Amazonian societies Amerindian anthropological argued argument Belém Brazil Brazilian caboclo complex caboclo society capitalist Carajás characterization Chico Mendes colonial colonists Combú concerned contemporary context cultivation culture developmentalist discussion dominance ecological economic ecosystem effects environment environmental ethnic ethnographic example exploitation extraction fact formal subsumption forms global historical peasantries household IBGE immigrants Indian integration invisibility kin group kinship ideology labour land large-scale major Manaus marginal merchant capital merchant capital's modernization natural neo-Amazonian noble savage nordestino Pará peasant production peasant societies periphery petty commodity production political population pre-capitalist programme recent region relations of production relatively represent result ribeirinhos rubber boom rural Santarém Santareno society sector siblings significant smallholder social formations social reproduction social systems structure surplus value sustainable development Tapajós terra firme Tomé-Açu Transamazônica transformation tropical forest urban várzea