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Contested Frontiers in Amazonia (Hardcover, New)
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Contested Frontiers in Amazonia (Hardcover, New)
Series: Biology and Resource Management Series
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Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an
interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of
frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern
region of the state of Para. The authors' analysis was based on the
idea that what they documented in the field - deforestation,
settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence, for
example - were the outcomes of the competition for resources among
social groups capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power. The
analysis of these contests illustrates how national and
international factors often shaped events at the local level,
thereby propelling the story of frontier expansion in different and
unexpected directions. Part One focuses on Amazonia as a whole. The
authors review the history of the region, and analyze the federal
and state policies that set into motion the contemporary process of
frontier expansion. In parts Two and Three, they present the
results of their empirical work on the evolution of frontier
communities in southern Para. Each local history develops the
general themes put forth in the first section. The final chapter
brings the text back to larger issues of understanding such
frontier change, especially in light of the country's
anthropological, sociological, and demographic shifts and
collisions.
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