Amazonia
Subtitle: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers
Series: Center Books in Natural History
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801866616
Subjects: American history; Anthropology; Forests, rainforests; The Environment; Social Science; Human Geography; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Sociology; Latin America - South America; Architecture; South America; Human ecology; Landscape; Architecture / Landscape; Brazil; Amazon River Valley; Economic Conditions; History; Jari River Valley (Amapâa and Parâa)
First sentence: This book chronicles, from the perspective of environmental anthropology, centuries of territorial disputes among a wide variety of social groups in Amazonia.
Description: "In Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers, Paul Little chronicles centuries of territorial disputes in Amazonia. Examining a wide variety of social groups from an environmental and anthropological perspective, Little describes the factors that have created two unique biophysical and political environments at opposite ends of the Amazon River basin's rain forest.".

"Thoroughly researched and examining issues ranging from resource exploitation and conservation to colonization, urbanization, and industrialization, Amazonia will appeal to students and scholars in environmental studies, geography, ecology and conservation, cultural anthropology, and Latin American studies and history, as well as anyone interested in Amazonia."--BOOK JACKET.