现货Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia (Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication In)[9780292761346]

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作者Hoelle, Jeffrey

出版社University of Texas Press

ISBN9780292761346

出版时间2015-04

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页数212页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-04-14

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商品描述: Winner, Brazil Section Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2016The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, land conflict, and widespread deforestation. In the remote state of Acre, Brazil, rubber tappers fought against migrant ranchers to preserve the forest they relied on, and in the process, these "forest guardians" showed the world that it was possible to unite forest livelihoods and environmental preservation. Nowadays, many rubber tappers and their children are turning away from the forest-based lifestyle they once sought to protect and are becoming cattle-raisers or even "caubois" (cowboys). "Rainforest Cowboys" is the first book to examine the social and cultural forces driving the expansion of Amazonian cattle raising in all of their complexity.Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork, Jeffrey Hoelle shows how cattle raising is about much more than beef production or deforestation in Acre, even among "carnivorous" environmentalist

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