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In Amazonia : a natural history / Hugh Raffles.
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 a fascinating story that changes our understanding of this region and challenges us to rethink what we mean by "nature."
Raffles draws from a wide range of material to demonstrate--in contrast to the tendency to downplay human agency in the Amazon--that the region is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. He moves between a detailed narrative that analyzes the production of scientific knowledge about Amazonia over the centuries and an absorbing account of the extraordinary transformations to the fluvial landscape carried out over the past forty years by the inhabitants of Igarapé Guariba, four hours downstream from the nearest city.
Engagingly written, theoretically inventive, and vividly illustrated, the book introduces a diverse range of characters--from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders. A natural history of a different kind, In Amazonia shows how humans, animals, rivers, and forests all participate in the making of a region that remains today at the center of debates in environmental politics.
Record details
- ISBN: 0691048843 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780691048840 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0691048851 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780691048857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xiii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-295) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- In Amazonia -- Dissolution of the elements: the floodplain, 11,000 BP-2002 -- In the flow of becoming: Igarapé Guariba, 1941-1996 -- Countrey never sackt: Guiana, 1587-1631 -- Uses of butterflies: bates of the Amazons, 1848-1859 -- Dreamlife of ecology: South Pará, 1999 -- Fluvial intimacies: Amapá, 1995-1996.
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Estuarine ecology > Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
Estuarine ecology > Amazon River Region.
Natural history > Brazil > Igarapé Guariba.
Natural history > Amazon River Region.
Igarapé Guariba (Brazil) > History.
Amazon River Region > History.
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Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Brazil > Social life and customs.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GN 564 .B6 R34 2002 | 265920 | Stacks | Available | - |
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