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In Amazonia: A Natural History
Hugh Raffles
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Description for In Amazonia: A Natural History
Paperback. Demonstrates that the Amazon is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. This 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JHM; RN; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 506.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691048857
SKU
V9780691048857
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About Hugh Raffles
Hugh Raffles is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reviews for In Amazonia: A Natural History
Co-Winner of the 2003 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association Honorable Mention for the 2004 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "A new classic of the Amazon... In a sweeping panorama of the history of the Amazon ... Raffles impresses with his ... Read more