 | ISBN: 978-1-55587-339-4 $30.00 | |
| ISBN: 978-1-55587-352-3 $19.95 | ||
| 1998/244 pages/LC: 97-242 | ||
Focusing on the actions of the community as it faces new opportunities and recurring adversity, this work enlarges the scope of Wagley’s earlier study and reflects changes in anthropological method. Pace examines the social and cultural history of Gurupá—including such factors as regional underdevelopment, environmental degradation, and social conflict—as well as the more recent effects of political mobilization and Liberation Theology on human rights awareness and social advancement. He richly illustrates the political and economic forces—national and international—that affect Gurupá, and explores the motivations and means of those searching for alternatives to current patterns of development.
"This is a valuable and enjoyable work which, by focusing on the indigenous campesinato, fills something of a void in the ethnography of the Brazilian Amazon. Both expert Brazilianist and undergraduate will learn much of value regarding extractivism and its social and environmental consequences."—William H. Fisher, American Anthropologist
"A lively, highly readable study....[It] goes well beyond a reexamination of another investigator’s work, forging a new path into the realm of the regional, national, and international political and economic forces at work in Gurupá.”—Allyn MacLean Stearman