Vol. 6 • supplement • September 2000

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 abstract  Biosphere, history, and conjuncture in an analysis of the main Amazon issues José Augusto Pádua abstract Involuntary voyagers: Portuguese banished to colonial Amazon Janaína Amado abstract The curative art of specialists in folk medicine in times of cholera: 19th century Grão-Pará Jane Felipe Beltrão abstract Instruments and signs of civilization: the origin, formation, and recognition of the Amazon elite Ana Maria Daou abstract The social imaginary of the Amazon: the anthropology of knowledge makers Samuel Maria de Amorim Sá abstract  Euclides da Cunha and the Amazon: an outlook mediated by science José Carlos Barreto de Santana abstract Folk traditions in the use of medicinal plants in the Amazon Fernando Dumas abstract 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 abstract 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 abstract Boi-Bumbá in Parintins, Amazonas: a brief history and ethnography of the festival Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti abstract IMAGES Amazon of mysteries and discoveries: Parintins, the big surprise Loris Machado text in portuguese 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 text in portuguese 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 text in portuguese BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS Natural resources, the environment, and development of the Brazilian Amazon: a multi-dimensional debate José Augusto Drummond text in portuguese