Amazonian Caboclo Society

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ISBN: 9780854967568 | 0854967567
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/1/1993

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Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little serious attention. This volume aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It traces the development of caboclo societies and argues that much of the current discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society.

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Preface
Caboclos Out of History
Introduction	p. 3
The Specificity of an Historical Peasantry	p. 8
Invisible Caboclos, Visible Nature	p. 20
The Concept of Caboclo	p. 23
Caboclo Society as an Anthropological Object of Analysis	p. 26
The Construction of Invisibility I: The Non-equivalence of Amerindian and Caboclo Societies	p. 29
The Construction of Invisibility II: Invisible Peasants	p. 32
The Consequences of Invisibility	p. 34
Images of the Other in Contemporary Amazonia: Caboclo and the Anthropological Other	p. 40
Pristine Amazonia and the Perfect Other	p. 43
Aspects of Caricature	p. 45
Social System as a Function of Ecosystem: The Ecological Idiom in Amazonian Studies	p. 56
The Peasant Landscape and Modern Amazonia	p. 60
The Managed Ecosystem	p. 71
Crocodile Tears: Modernization in Amazonia	p. 74
Brazil as Client-state	p. 77
The State as Broker	p. 78
The Social Object	p. 89
Caboclos in History
Santarem and the 'Failure' of Transamazonica	p. 93
The Modernization Landscape	p. 94
Peasants as a Default Category	p. 100
The Metaphors of Stagnation and Pathology	p. 108
The Boundaries of Santarem	p. 109
The People of Santarem	p. 112
A Sketch of Occupational Structure	p. 116
Local Society Versus International Culture	p. 117
Contingency and Permanence in Santareno Peasant Production	p. 122
The City as Wreckage	p. 125
Political Background	p. 130
The Church	p. 131
Facing the O Futuru	p. 134
Exploring Santareno Identity: Kinship, Domestic Groups and Social Organization	p. 137
Kindreds	p. 140
Case Studies of Kindreds	p. 155
Kindred Composition and the Transformation of 'Traditional' Society	p. 171
Petty Commodity Production and Formal Subsumption: Caboclo Peasants	p. 176
The Caboclo Complex	p. 179
Petty Commodity Production: The 'Immigrant' Nordestino Complex	p. 183
Formal Subsumption in the Absence of Real Subsumption	p. 186
The 'Japanese Complex'	p. 191
Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Blockage	p. 199
Social Reproduction and the Petty Commodity Repertoire	p. 202
Locating Merchant Capital	p. 210
Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Use-values, Export of Surplus Value	p. 210
Merchant Capital and Subordination	p. 217
The Allocthanous Origins of Amazonian Peasantries	p. 227
Maintaining the Image of Sustainable Development	p. 230
The Specificity of Amazonianist Discourse	p. 233
Sustainability versus Social Reproduction	p. 235
Combu and Forest Management	p. 246
The Future of Sustainability in Amazonia	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 256
Index	p. 275
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