Stephen Nugent

Amazonian Caboclo Society

An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traditionally, Non-Indian societies in Brazilian Amazonia - 'caboclo' - are treated by anthropologists as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia - leftovers of the colonial enterprise and have therefore received little serious attention. This volume attempts to redress this imbalance by looking closely at the encompassing nature of peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. The first part of the book is concerned with the concept of caboclo as it emerges in anthropological and Amazonianist disclosure. The second examines a historical 'caboclo' society (in Santarem, Para) from a broadly ethnographic viewpoint. Three different modes of peasant livelihood and their relation to the impact of the Transamazon Highway are then fully discussed, followed by a detailed examination of the 'sustainable- development' thesis using research from another part of Amazonia - the Guama River. Overall, this volume aims to examine the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society and to place it in a historical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780854967568
• ISBN-10: 0854967567
• Artikelnr.: 21765484

Autorenporträt

Stephen Nugent Lecturer in Anthropology,University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Caboclos Out of History
1. Introduction
2. Invisible Caboclos Visible Nature
Part 2 Caboclos in History
4. Santarém and the `Failure¿ of Transamazônica
5. Exploring Santareno Identity : Kinship
Domestic Groups and Social Organization 6. Petty Commodity Production and Formal Subsumption : Caboclo Peasants 7. Merchant Capital
Social Reproduction and Blockage 8. Maintaining the Image of Sustainable Development