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Reynolds, Michael John.

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Thriving at the edges: Agency, identity, and adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Thriving at the edges: Agency, identity, and adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon./
作者:	Reynolds, Michael John.
面頁冊數:	298 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2668.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
標題:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3097152

Thriving at the edges: Agency, identity, and adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Reynolds, Michael John.

Thriving at the edges: Agency, identity, and adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon. - 298 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2668.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2003.

Redenção is a new town in the Brazilian Amazonia; one of many settlements that migrants have established during forty years of socioeconomic and environmental change in the region. This dissertation examines how the men and women of Redenção and other Amazonian communities have struggled, and in many instances succeeded, in building new lives and creating new opportunities “at the edges.”Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a This dissertation begins with a survey of historical periods in which Brazilians from varied socioeconomic backgrounds moved physically to the periphery in search of economic prosperity, autonomy, and refuge. In each instance, they attempted to undermine the state, its clients, and their exclusive control over the commodity-driven, export economy. Brazil's historical dependence upon commodity production and its early insertion into the global economy were factors that led to the country's unequal development, but often proved beneficial to clandestine and informal producers.
520 $a Chapter Three shifts to the Amazon, and more specifically to Redenção, employing an ethnography that is multilocal and examines several different sites in and around this Amazon town. This chapter commences with individual biographies and then expands to the wider community; demonstrating how actors' multifaceted and fluid identities blur the socioeconomic landscape, transforming it from a static black and white snapshot of conflict between two discreet groups, as depicted by most Amazonian scholars, to an impressionistic landscape of ever shifting occupations and alliances, hesitantly painted and then redrawn again and again.
520 $a Chapter Four moves in more closely to study the gold sector, exploring the lives of the men who worked in one of the informal gold mines known as garimpos. It demonstrates how these garimpos, often portrayed as places of despair, were in reality social spaces where many individuals were upwardly mobile. In these tightly regulated institutions, individuals also found security and refuge, and developed strong affective bonds.
520 $a The concluding chapter emphasizes the importance of individual agency and the irrelevance of ‘frontier’ theories in understanding this heterogeneous region and its inhabitants. A more accurate portrayal of these communities and a clearer understanding of their role in transforming the Amazon are essential for those working to develop appropriate policy intervention strategies.
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