Life on the Amazon: The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant VillageInnovative contribution to anthropology's interest in how identity is created and defined, using two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of coboclo fisherpeople who live on the banks of the Amazon. |
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list of illustrations | |
caboclo 27 | |
the tides of history in Amazonia 30 | |
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activities affinal agriculture Ailton Amazon River Amazonia Ambrozio Amerindians amongst animals anthropology Antônio Benedita boat bosses Brazil Brazilian caboclo canoe catch cattle century chapter claim Clara close kin co-residence cocoa colonial consanguineal couple cousin marriages cousins create crops culture developmental cycle dry season economic endogamy environment ethnographic example exchange export festa fieldwork fish flood floodplain dwellers give godparents Gomes cluster hunting identity important José-Maria jute kinship kinspeople labour lake land Lima live lower middle Amazon Manaus manioc marriage marry Merina move neighbours Óbidos ownership pacú panema parents Parintins Parú Parúaros peasantry peasants Pedro person piracaia plant political Portuguese production region relations relationship residence rhythm River Amazon riverine rubber rural Santarém sell sense shaman sharing sibling set Silva cluster someone spirit told town traders Trombetas River types wanted woman women