University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies Search this
Latin American Conference (31st : 1982 : University of Florida) Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 502 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Amazon River Region
Date:
1984
C1984
Notes:
"Sponsored by the Amazon Research and Training Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida."
Selected papers presented at the 31st Latin American Conference, held Feb. 8-11, 1982, at the University of Florida.
Contents:
Indian policy in Amazonian Ecuador / William T. Vickers -- Indian policy in eastern Peru / Anthony Stocks -- Native peoples of lowland Bolivia / James C. Jones -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- The politics of cultural survival in Venezuela: beyond indigenismo / Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez -- Demystifying the second conquest / David Maybury-Lewis -- The magnitude of migration to the Brazilian frontier / Charles H. Wood and John Wilson -- Expansion of the agrarian and demographic frontier in the Peruvian selva / Carlos E. Aramburu -- Frontier expansion and retraction in Brazil / Donald R. Sawyer -- Colonization in the Colombian Amazon / Sutti Ortiz -- Colonization in Santa Cruz, Bolivia: a comparative study of the Yapacani and San Julian Projects / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Colonization and spontaneous settlement in the Ecuadoran Amazon / Jorge Uquillas -- Colonization in the Transamazon and Rondonia / Emilio F. Moran -- Ecological heterogeneity and horizontal zonation of agriculture in the Amazon floodplain / William M. Denevan -- Continuous cropping potential in the upper Amazon Basin / J.J. Nicholaides III, D.E. Bandy, P.A. Sanchez, J.H. Villachica, A.J. Coutu, and C.S. Valverde -- Cattle ranching in Amazonia: political and ecological considerations / Susanna B. Hecht -- National expansion and development policies in the Colombian Amazon / Camilo A. Dominguez -- Strategies of private capital in the Brazilian Amazon / Malori Jose Pompermayer -- Law and social change: the problem of land in the Brazilian Amazon / Roberto Santos -- The state and the militarization of the agrarian question in Brazil / Jose de Souza Martins
