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Mekranoti : Living among the Painted People of the Amazon
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ISBN: 3791314319 Year: 1996 Publisher: München Prestel

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A grammar of Kulina
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ISBN: 9783110339680 9783110341911 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter Mouton

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Arts of the Amazon
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ISBN: 0500278245 Year: 1995 Publisher: Londen Thames and Hudson

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The Hidden Peoples of the Amazon
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ISBN: 0714115738 Year: 1985 Publisher: Londen British Museum Press

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Wat bezielt de sjamaan? : genezing, extase, kunst
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ISBN: 9068322737 Year: 1997 Publisher: Amsterdam : Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen,

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Ethnodéveloppement, développement durable et droit en Amazonie
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ISBN: 9782802722830 2802722832 Year: 2007 Volume: 8 Publisher: Bruxelles : Bruylant,


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Ergativity in Amazonia
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ISBN: 9789027206701 9789027288509 902728850X 9027206708 1282558692 9786612558696 Year: 2010 Volume: 89 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The five papers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergative patterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is in detailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, and parallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The three papers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two present dominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other a syntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. In each, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditional grammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all future typological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations.

Brazilian perspectives on sustainable development of the Amazon region
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ISBN: 1850705763 9231030531 Year: 1995 Volume: 15 Publisher: Paris UNESCO


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Masques du monde : l'univers du masque dans les collections du musée international de Carnaval et du Masque de Binche
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ISBN: 2804604136 9782804604134 Year: 2000 Volume: *27 Publisher: Bruxelles: La renaissance du livre,

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Une sélection commentée d'environ 150 pièces parmi les plus beaux masques du monde entier, réalisée à partir des collections du musée international du Carnaval et du Masque de Binche en Belgique.

Sustainable settlement in the Brazilian Amazon
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ISBN: 0195211049 9780195211047 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): World bank,

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This study is based on field surveys conducted in the Brazilian Amazon and covers twenty years of settlement experience. Its findings reveal that much of the Amazonian frontier land deforested by pioneers in the 1970s is becoming agriculturally unproductive. In response to the Brazilian economic crisis of the 1980s, a growing urban middle class began buying such land and holding it as a store of value, causing original settlers to leave and migrate to new frontiers within the Amazon.The authors conclude that for small farmers to be prevented from moving on and clearing new frontiers, they must be rewarded for staying in the old ones. THis requires promoting good farming, punishing speculation,a nd directly penalizing deforestation, through the innovative use of economic policies and new forms of cooperation between environmental and economic agencies at the local, national, and international levels, including the World Bank. Paradoxically, sustainable farming in the Amazon world would not likely attract migrants from outside the region, but unsustainable farming is sure to continue fueling intra-regional migration, even if the general economic crisis were to subside during the 1990s. Consequently, there is increasing urgency to devise policies that protect the forest by providing poor farmers with economic alternatives to encroachment.

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