Amazonia : territorial struggles on perennial frontiers
著者
書誌事項
Amazonia : territorial struggles on perennial frontiers
（Center books in natural history）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全1件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index
収録内容
- Invading indigenous homelands : historical frontiers in Amazonia to 1950
- Taming the jungle : development cosmographies in Amazonia, 1945-1995
- Saving the rain forest : environmental cosmographies in Amazonia, 1970-1999
- Disputing territorial claims : contemporary frontiers in Amazonia during the 1990s
- Conclusion : Amazonian territoriality today
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In this study, Paul Little chronicles centuries of territorial disputes in Amazonia. Examining a wide variety of social groups from an environmental and anthropological perspective, Little describes the factors that have created two unique biophysical and political environments at opposite ends of the Amazon River basin's rain forest. Little makes a comparative study of the Aguarico region in eastern Ecuador (at the western upper edge of the rain forest) and the Jari region of Brazil (at its eastern lowland end) using four time frames to examine early European invasions of indigenous homelands, fortune-building attempts in Amazonia, conservation concerns in the tropical ecosystems; and disputes over territorial claims that arose during the 1990s. By interweaving his examination between the two regions within each time frame, Little effectively highlights how similar globalizing forces were locally appropriated to produce widely divergent environmental and political histories. A large part of the study is given to the period beginning in the 1950s. Little outlines the contemporary struggles - social, political, economic and ecological - arising in Amazonia.
He also examines the frontier processes of ethnocide and ethnogenesis whereby the indigenous communities of the upper Amazon have retained some control over their lands, while in the lower Amazon traditional riverine communities strive for existence against increasing industrialization.
「Nielsen BookData」 より
