TY - BOOK ID - 14296056 TI - Amazon peasant societies in a changing environment : political ecology, invisibility and modernity in the rainforest AU - Adams, Cristina. AU - Sociedades Caboclas Amazonicas : Modernidade e Invisibilidade PY - 2009 SN - 1402092822 9048180996 9786611920463 1281920460 1402092830 PB - [Dordrecht] : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology. KW - Ethnology. KW - History. KW - Medicine. KW - Peasants. KW - Social sciences. KW - Caboclos (Brazilian people) KW - Peasants KW - Rain forest people KW - Human ecology KW - Political ecology KW - Social isolation KW - Social change KW - Social Sciences KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - Gender & Ethnic Studies KW - Social Sciences - General KW - Latin America KW - Ethnic & Race Studies KW - History & Archaeology KW - Social conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnology KW - Economic conditions KW - Social life and customs KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Cabocos (Brazilian people) KW - Caboculos (Brazilian people) KW - Peasantry KW - Conservation biology. KW - Ecology. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Social Sciences, general. KW - History, general. KW - Sustainable Development. KW - Conservation Biology/Ecology. KW - Medicine/Public Health, general. KW - Indians of South America KW - Mestizos KW - Racially mixed people KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Mixed descent KW - Ecology KW - Nature conservation KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Economic development KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Environmental aspects KW - Health Workforce KW - Ecology . KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Amazon River Region KW - Social conditions. KW - Environmental conditions. KW - Amazonia KW - Primitive societies KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14296056 AB - 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. ER -