In Amazonia: A Natural HistoryPrinceton University Press, 27. okt 2002 - 302 pages 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." |
Contents
In Amazonia | 1 |
Dissolution of the Elements The Floodplain 11000 BP2002 | 12 |
In the Flow of Becoming Igarape Guariba 19411996 | 44 |
A Countrey Never Sackt Guiana 15871631 | 75 |
The Uses of Butterflies Bates of the Amazons 18481859 | 114 |
The Dreamlife of Ecology South Para 1999 | 150 |