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"From Myths to Rules: The Evolution of Local Management in the Amazonian Floodplain"
This paper focuses on historical analysis of the local management of the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain.
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The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People
An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.
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Fields and Forests: Ethnographic Perspectives on Environmental Globalization
Around the world, fields and forests are increasingly dominated by the market, mediated by science, and subjected to new modes of transnational environmental governance. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into the impacts of such environmental globalization.
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Syphilis in South America: A Closer Look at Pre-Contact Bolivia
This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary study of the Loma Salvatierra archaeological site, which contribute to the discussion about the origins of venereal syphilis by further clarifying a likely origin and route of transmission of syphilis from the Old World to the New.
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Tending the Emperor’s Garden: Modes of Human-Nature Relations in the Cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé Indians of the Lower Amazon
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
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Amazonia Eterna
This award-winning documentary sheds new and positive insight on the importance of indigenous knowledge for conservation and how indigenous commerce could save the mighty Amazon rainforest.