...Robert W. Wilcox Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon . Gomercindo Rodrigues and Linda Rabben . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring driedup or hardtimesthreatenedN. ew corridorisn thetwentiethcentury...

... concerns to adapt their techniques. Following the logic of earlier decades, more recently cattle-raising practices developed in Mato Grosso and similar regions have been applied in the tropical Amazon, resulting in widespread ecological devastation. The uneven experiences of foreign entrepreneurs in Mato...

... differences in how scholars and everyday people living in the Amazon conceive of the relationship between ecological systems, agricultural production, and humans. Kawa convincingly demonstrates that contemporary rural Amazonian smallholders understand that humans and nature share agency in shaping our world...

... of anthropologists and environmentalists, Brazil s Amazon region is now a flourishing site of cutting-edge historical inquiry. Over the past twenty years, historians have approached the region with exceptional ingenuity. Oscar de la Torre is no exception, and his socio-environmental history of black peasants...

... consumption and cattle production in the Brazilian state of acre. Hoelle explores the increasing prominence of cattle culture in this corner of the Brazilian amazon, which is famed for its historical resistance to cattle ranching and attendant deforestation (5). using survey-based and ethnographic research...

..., and how current ranching in the Amazon Basin draws on these previous experiences (227). The first of these he develops extensively, but the second is referred to only occasionally. Indeed, given the ecological difference in the two regions southern Mato Grosso is actually subtropical this is an argument...

... (2015), it is part of a promising trend in recent studies of the Amazon to move beyond the past conflicts between scientific human ecology and ideational social theory approaches. Amazonia in the Anthropocene is ethnographic in both methodology and tone. Kawa has remarkable self-awareness and a richly...

... and crops with itinerant merchants or serving as guides for hunting expeditions, such knowledge unlocked trade and social networks that spanned the entire Amazon basin. But when the rubber boom went bust in the 1910s, Afro-descendants confronted plummeting living standards and threats to customary access...

... representgsenerationosfitineranwt orkerswhose liveshavebeenignoredt,heirstoriesuntoldA. cunarescuesthemfromoblivionand affordtshemthedignitytheysufferedso longand so hardto gain, remindinugs as wellthattheirstrugglleiveson. RichardM. Chapman ConcórdiaCollege Walkingthe Forest with Chico Mendes: Strugglefor Justicein the Amazon...

... to the Mawés region of the lower Amazon and the Orinoco River of Venezuela. This region has been occupied by the Sateré-Mawé peoples, who were responsible for the plant's domestication. Despite scant sources—due largely to the fact that Brazilian Indigenous cultures were exclusively oral—Garfield effectively...

... Warder , The True Amazons: Or, The Monarchy of Bees. Being a New Discovery and Improvement of those Wonderful Creatures , 4 th ed. ( London : John Pemberton , 1720 ), vi – xii ; Keith Thomas , Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800 ( London : Allen Lane , 1983...

... for “self-determination and self-making” (182). There has been less investment in quilombo tourism than in tourism along coastal beach areas, ecotourism in the Amazon region, or pro-poor/reality tourism in urban shantytowns. Despite the lack of evidence, assertions are made about the potential positive...

... smallholders. For scholars and students of the amazon region and cattle cultures, Rainforest Cowboys offers a compelling account of the cultural importance of cattle and beef. Those unfamiliar with the role of cattle in amazonian deforestation may miss the import of the cultural change Hoelle describes. yet...

... fires in the Brazilian Amazon and central Florida, particularly the differences in media coverage, causal responsibility, fire-fighting funds, and personal attitudes. Suzana Sawyer uses her ten years of experience in Ecuador to analyze ARCO's (now BP Amoco) record in producing oil via the Amazonian...

... to the Rio Grande a tributary of the Amazon which ran along their eastern flank. As representative Yoshihide Higa recalled in 1961, the settlers catch plenty of fish there [up to] a horse-cart full . . . in one hour. 1 While the river provided food and entertainment, enterprising Okinawans faced resistance...

..., and how current ranching in the Amazon Basin draws on these previous experiences (227). The first of these he develops extensively, but the second is referred to only occasionally. Indeed, given the ecological difference in the two regions southern Mato Grosso is actually subtropical this is an argument...

... of Caboclo Populations in the Amazon Estuary." Indiana Uni? versity, 1996. Campbell, Constance Elaine. "Forest, Field, and Factory: Changing Liveli- Dissertations / 491 hood Strategies in Two Extractive Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon." University of Florida, 1996. Childress, Malcolm Dudley. "Economic...

..., long-term effects of breathing smoke-saturated air). It is a scenario familiar from recent global coverage of the Amazon and California and, slightly less familiar to global viewers, from India, Borneo, and South Africa. The same basic set of factors, including climate change and poor land management...

... ) for industries such as shipbuilding, it was fitted to the economic interests of investors, landowners, and the courts, but not to the complex needs of local communities. 3 To see dramatic environmental change in 1860, however, one did not need to travel all the way to the Amazon basin. It was enough...

...: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 87-89; Dunkerley, Power in the Isthmus, 144-50, 434; Theisenhusen, Broken Promises, 74-84; Ross, Malthus Factor, 121-22. Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil...