At the end of the rainbow?
Subtitle: gold, land, and people in the Brazilian Amazon
By: Gordon MacMillan.
Series: Methods and cases in conservation science
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Brazil -- Roraima.; Gold miners -- Brazil -- Roraima.; Yanomamo Indians -- Brazil -- Roraima.
Description: "Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-[192]) and index.