Life on the Amazon
Subtitle: the anthropology of a Brazilian peasant village
By: Mark Harris.
Series: A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Ethnology -- Brazil -- Óbidos; Fishing villages -- Brazil -- Óbidos; Peasantry -- Brazil -- Óbidos; Caboclos (Brazilian people) -- Brazil -- Óbidos; Social change -- Brazil -- Óbidos; Óbidos (Brazil) -- Social life and customs
Other titles: Anthropology of a Brazilian peasant village
Description: This text explores how identity is created and defined. Dr Harris uses two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of caboclo fisherpeople who live on the banks on the River Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.