At the End of the Rainbow? Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon

Name: At the End of the Rainbow? Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon
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ISBN: 9780231103558

ISBN-10: 0231103557

ISBN-13: 9780231103558

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Authors: Gordon MacMillan

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Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 199
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.66" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English



Illustrations


Acronyms


Glossary of Brazilian terms


Preface


Acknowledgements



The Quickening Pulse of Amazonian Life



Indian Gold: The Rush to the Yanomami Reserve



Just keep on digging away: Smallholder agriculture and gold mining



The Golden Cow? Ranching and Mining



Local Prospects: Riverine Dwellers, Indians and Mining



The Politics of Gold Mining



The Destruction of Eden?



Placing the Amazonian Gold Rush in Perspective


Bibliography


Selected further reading


Index