Vol. 6 • supplement • September 2000

vol6_amazonia

ANALYSIS
Private investments, environmental impact, and the quality of life at a mining venture in the Amazon: the case of the Serra do Navio manganese mine in Amapá
José Augusto Drummond
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Biosphere, history, and conjuncture in an analysis of the main Amazon issues
José Augusto Pádua
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Involuntary voyagers: Portuguese banished to colonial Amazon
Janaína Amado
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The curative art of specialists in folk medicine in times of cholera: 19th century Grão-Pará
Jane Felipe Beltrão
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Instruments and signs of civilization: the origin, formation, and recognition of the Amazon elite
Ana Maria Daou
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The social imaginary of the Amazon: the anthropology of knowledge makers
Samuel Maria de Amorim Sá
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Euclides da Cunha and the Amazon: an outlook mediated by science
José Carlos Barreto de Santana
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Folk traditions in the use of medicinal plants in the Amazon
Fernando Dumas
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Levels of socioeconomic development in the Brazilian Amazon: 1970 and 1980
Archibald O. Haller,, Ramon S. Torrecilha,, Maria Cristina del Peloso Haller, Manoel M. Tourinho
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Science in the periphery: Unesco, the proposal to create the International Institute of the Hylean Amazon and the origins of Inpa
Marcos Chor Maio and Magali Romero Sá
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Boi-Bumbá in Parintins, Amazonas: a brief history and ethnography of the festival
Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti
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IMAGES
Amazon of mysteries and discoveries: Parintins, the big surprise
Loris Machado
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TESTIMONY
The Amazon: modernity and backwardness, or Brazil and its regional paradoxes
Márcio Souza
text in portuguese

DEBATE
Film in the Amazon
Murilo Santos, Dominique Gallois, Aurelio Michiles, Selda Vale da Costa, Renato Pereira, Ricardo Arnt, Geoffrey O’Connor
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SOURCES
The Carneiro family collection: a source in the study of Brazilian philosophical, political, and scientific thought and practice in the 19th and 20th centuries
Priscila Fraiz
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS
Natural resources, the environment, and development of the Brazilian Amazon: a multi-dimensional debate
José Augusto Drummond
text in portuguese

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