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Title Frontier expansion in Amazonia / edited by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood ; foreword by Charles Wagley.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [1984]
©1984

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 502 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "Sponsored by the Amazon Research and Training Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida."
Selected papers presented at the 31st Latin American Conference, held Feb. 8-11, 1982, at the University of Florida.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Indian policy in Amazonian Ecuador / William T. Vickers -- Indian policy in eastern Peru / Anthony Stocks -- Native peoples of lowland Bolivia / James C. Jones -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- Politics of cultural survival in Venezuela : beyond indigenismo / Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez -- Demystifying the second conquest / David Maybury-Lewis -- Magnitude of migration to the Brazilian frontier / Charles H. Wood and John Wilson -- Expansion of the agrarian and demographic frontier in the Peruvian selva / Carlos E. Aramburu -- Frontier expansion and retraction in Brazil / Donald R. Sawyer -- Colonization in the Colombian Amazon / Sutti Ortiz -- Colonization in Santa Cruz, Bolivia : a comparative study of the Yapacani and San Julian Projects / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Colonization and spontaneous settlement in the Ecuadoran Amazon / Jorge Uquillas -- Colonization in the Transamazon and Rondonia / Emilio F. Moran -- Ecological heterogeneity and horizontal zonation of agriculture in the Amazon floodplain / William M. Denevan -- Continuous cropping potential in the upper Amazon Basin / J.J. Nicholaides III, D.E. Bandy, P.A. Sanchez, J.H. Villachica, A.J. Coutu, and C.S. Valverde -- Cattle ranching in Amazonia : political and ecological considerations / Susanna B. Hecht -- National expansion and development policies in the Colombian Amazon / Camilo A. Dominguez -- Strategies of private capital in the Brazilian Amazon / Malori Jose Pompermayer -- Law and social change : the problem of land in the Brazilian Amazon / Roberto Santos -- State and the militarization of the agrarian question in Brazil / Jose de Souza Martins.
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Subject Land settlement -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses.
Land settlement.
Amazon River Region.
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Government relations -- Congresses.
Indians of South America.
Agricultural ecology -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses.
Agricultural ecology.
Investments -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses.
Investments.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Schmink, Marianne.
Wood, Charles H., 1945-
University of Florida. Center for Latin American Studies.
Latin American Conference (31st : 1982 : University of Florida)
Other Form: Print version: Frontier expansion in Amazonia. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, ©1984 0813007852 (DLC) 84025707 (OCoLC)11399461
ISBN 0813020298 (electronic book)
9780813020297 (electronic book)
0813007852