Amazonian caboclo society : an essay on invisibility and peasant economy /
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| Author / Creator: | Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.) |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; Providence, RI : Berg, 1993. |
| Description: | xxiii, 278 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in anthropology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1484810 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Caboclos Out of History
- 1. Introduction. The Specificity of an Historical Peasantry. 2. Invisible Caboclos, Visible Nature. The Concept of Caboclo. Caboclo Society as an Anthropological Object of Analysis. The Construction of Invisibility I: The Non-equivalence of Amerindian and Caboclo Societies. The Construction of Invisibility II: Invisible Peasants. The Consequences of Invisibility. Images of the Other in Contemporary Amazonia: Caboclo and the Anthropological Other. Pristine Amazonia and the Perfect Other. Aspects of Caricature. 3. Social System as a Function of Ecosystem: The Ecological Idiom in Amazonian Studies. The Peasant Landscape and Modern Amazonia. The Managed Ecosystem. Crocodile Tears: Modernization in Amazonia. Brazil as Client-state. The State as Broker. The Social Object
- Pt. II. Caboclos in History. 4. Santarem and the 'Failure' of Transamazonica. The Modernization Landscape. Peasants as a Default Category. The Metaphors of Stagnation and Pathology. The Boundaries of Santarem. The People of Santarem. A Sketch of Occupational Structure. Local Society Versus International Culture. Contingency and Permanence in Santareno Peasant Production. The City as Wreckage. Political Background. The Church. Facing the O Futuru. 5. Exploring Santareno Identity: Kinship, Domestic Groups and Social Organization. Kindreds. Case Studies of Kindreds. Kindred Composition and the Transformation of 'Traditional' Society. 6. Petty Commodity Production and Formal Subsumption: Caboclo Peasants. The Caboclo Complex. Petty Commodity Production: The 'Immigrant' Nordestino Complex. Formal Subsumption in the Absence of Real Subsumption. The 'Japanese Complex'. 7. Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Blockage. Social Reproduction and the Petty Commodity Repertoire. Locating Merchant Capital. Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Use-values, Export of Surplus Value. Merchant Capital and Subordination. The Allocthanous Origins of Amazonian Peasantries. 8. Maintaining the Image of Sustainable Development. The Specificity of Amazonianist Discourse. Sustainability versus Social Reproduction. Combu and Forest Management. The Future of Sustainability in Amazonia.