Amazonian Geographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazonian Geographies write by Jacqueline M. Vadjunec. This book was released on 2014-07-16. Amazonian Geographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is peopled by many distinct cultural groups who remain largely invisible to the outside world despite their increasing integration into global markets and global politics. Millions of rubber tappers, neo-native groups, peasants, river dwellers, and urban residents continue to shape and re-shape the cultural landscape as they adapt their livelihood practices and political strategies in response to changing markets and shifting linkages with political and economic actors at local, regional, national, and international levels. This book explores the diversity of changing identities and cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.
Amazonian Geographies
Amazonian Geographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazonian Geographies write by Jacqueline M. Vadjunec. This book was released on 2014-07-16. Amazonian Geographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is peopled by many distinct cultural groups who remain largely invisible to the outside world despite their increasing integration into global markets and global politics. Millions of rubber tappers, neo-native groups, peasants, river dwellers, and urban residents continue to shape and re-shape the cultural landscape as they adapt their livelihood practices and political strategies in response to changing markets and shifting linkages with political and economic actors at local, regional, national, and international levels. This book explores the diversity of changing identities and cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.
Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia
Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia write by Denise P Schaan. This book was released on 2016-06-16. Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of its ancient cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed.
Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia
Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia write by Denise P Schaan. This book was released on 2016-06-16. Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legendary El Dorado—the city of gold—remains a mere legend, but astonishing new discoveries are revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed. Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of its ancient cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, synthesizing exciting new evidence of large-scale land and resource management to tell a new history of indigenous Amazonia. Schaan also engages fundamental debates about the development of social complexity and the importance of ancient Amazonia from a global perspective. This innovative, interdisciplinary book is a major contribution to the study of human-environment relations, social complexity, and past and present indigenous societies.
Mapping the Amazon
Mapping the Amazon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Amazon write by Amanda M. Smith. This book was released on 2021-05-01. Mapping the Amazon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Smith’s investigation focuses rigorously on the aesthetic complexities of these texts to demonstrate how, in a way even the authors themselves sometimes do not suspect, new ways arise of understanding their power of eco-criticism. [...] Smith’s contribution is this call, like few today, to awaken new energies in the literary and cultural criticism about the Amazon precisely because she has her feet grounded in the harsh history of the region, while her eyes are focused on different future possibilities for the region.' Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, ReVista
