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Amazonia is never quite what it seems. Despite regular attention in the media and numerous academic studies the Brazilian Amazon is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. Often left invisible are the families who are making a living from the rivers and forests of the region. Broadly characterizing these people as peasants Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment seeks to bring together research by anthropologists, historians, political ecologists and biologists. A new paradigm emerges which helps understand the way in which Amazonian modernity has developed. This book addresses a comprehensive range of questions from the politics of conservation and sustainable development to the organization of women’s work and the diet and health of Amazonian people. Apart from offering an analysis of a neglected aspect of Amazonia this collection represents a unique interdisciplinary exercise on the nature of one of the most beguiling regions of the world.

Anthropology. --- Ethnology. --- History. --- Medicine. --- Peasants. --- Social sciences. --- Caboclos (Brazilian people) --- Peasants --- Rain forest people --- Human ecology --- Political ecology --- Social isolation --- Social change --- Social Sciences --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences - General --- Latin America --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- History & Archaeology --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Ethnology --- Economic conditions --- Social life and customs --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Cabocos (Brazilian people) --- Caboculos (Brazilian people) --- Peasantry --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Sustainable development. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Sciences, general. --- History, general. --- Sustainable Development. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Indians of South America --- Mestizos --- Racially mixed people --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Mixed descent --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Environmental aspects --- Health Workforce --- Ecology . --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Amazon River Region --- Social conditions. --- Environmental conditions. --- Amazonia --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences