Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment

1. Introduction
Cristina Adams, Rui Murrieta, Walter Neves

2. Utopias and Dystopias in the Amazonian Social Landscape
Stephen Nugent

3. Landscape Transformation and Language Change: A Case Study in Amazonian Historical Ecology
William Balée

4. Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries
Décio de Alencar Guzmán

5. ‘Sempre Ajeitando’ (Always Adjusting): An Amazonian Way of Being in Time1
Mark Harris

6. Traditional Peoples: Introduction to the Political Ecology Critique of a Notion
Henyo Barretto Filho

7. The Domestic Economy in Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas State
Deborah de Magalhães Lima

8. Patterns of Resource Use by Caboclo Communities in the Middle-Lower Amazon
Fábio de Castro

9. Agriculture Intensification, Economic Identity, and Shared Invisibility in Amazonian Peasantry: Caboclos and Colonists in Comparative Perspective
Eduardo Brondizio

10. The Use of and Access to Forest Resources: The Caboclos of the Lower Amazon and Their Socio-Cultural Attributes
Célia Futemma

11. Women, Gender Relations and Decision-Making in Caboclo Households in the Amazon Estuary
Andrea Siqueira

12. ‘I Love Flowers’: Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil
Rui Murrieta, Antoinette WinklerPrins

13. Bread of the Land: The Invisibility of Manioc in the Amazon
Cristina Adams, Rui Murrieta, Andrea Siqueira, Walter Neves, Rosely Sanches

14. Socio-Ecology of Health and Disease: The Effects of Invisibility on the Caboclo Populations of The Amazon
Hilton Silva

15. Conclusion
Rui Murrieta, Walter Neves, Henyo Barretto Filho, Cristina Adams

Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General SOC000000