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Rain forest exchanges : industry and community on an Amazonian frontier / William H. Fisher.

Title: Rain forest exchanges : industry and community on an Amazonian frontier / William H. Fisher.
Author: Fisher, William H. (William Harry)
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2000.

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Description

xii, 222 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry

Uniform Title

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-212) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

A Note on Orthography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Rise of Rubber and Religion -- 3. Renouncing the Frontier -- 4. The Beginnings of Redistribution -- 5. The Quiet Revolution -- 6. Inconstant Goods -- 7. Inflation, Food, and the New Economy -- 8. The Spread of Chiefly Power -- 9. In the Maelstrom of Extractivism -- 10. The Politics of Work -- 11. Conclusion.

ISBN

1560989580 (alk. paper)
1560989831 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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^^^00028516^

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