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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marianne Schmink; Charles H Wood; University of Florida. Center for Latin American Studies. |
| ISBN: | 0813007852 9780813007854 |
| OCLC Number: | 11399461 |
| Notes: | "Sponsored by the Amazon Research and Training Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida." Selected papers presented at the 31st Latin American Conference, held Feb. 8-11, 1982, at the University of Florida. |
| Description: | xviii, 502 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Indian policy in Amazonian Ecuador / William T. Vickers -- Indian policy in eastern Peru / Anthony Stocks -- Native peoples of lowland Bolivia / James C. Jones -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- The politics of cultural survival in Venezuela: beyond indigenismo / Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez -- Demystifying the second conquest / David Maybury-Lewis -- The magnitude of migration to the Brazilian frontier / Charles H. Wood and John Wilson -- Expansion of the agrarian and demographic frontier in the Peruvian selva / Carlos E. Aramburu -- Frontier expansion and retraction in Brazil / Donald R. Sawyer -- Colonization in the Colombian Amazon / Sutti Ortiz -- Colonization in Santa Cruz, Bolivia: a comparative study of the Yapacani and San Julian Projects / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Colonization and spontaneous settlement in the Ecuadoran Amazon / Jorge Uquillas -- Colonization in the Transamazon and Rondonia / Emilio F. Moran -- Ecological heterogeneity and horizontal zonation of agriculture in the Amazon floodplain / William M. Denevan -- Continuous cropping potential in the upper Amazon Basin / J.J. Nicholaides III, D.E. Bandy, P.A. Sanchez, J.H. Villachica, A.J. Coutu, and C.S. Valverde -- Cattle ranching in Amazonia: political and ecological considerations / Susanna B. Hecht -- National expansion and development policies in the Colombian Amazon / Camilo A. Dominguez -- Strategies of private capital in the Brazilian Amazon / Malori Jose Pompermayer -- Law and social change: the problem of land in the Brazilian Amazon / Roberto Santos -- The state and the militarization of the agrarian question in Brazil / Jose de Souza Martins. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood ; foreword by Charles Wagley. |
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