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Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy
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Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

by Stephen Nugent. 282 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Tables ix
List of Maps x
Maps xi
Glossary xv
Preface xviii
Part I Caboclos Out of History
1. Introduction 3
The Specificity of an Historical Peasantry 8
2. Invisible Caboclos, Visible Nature 20
The Concept of Caboclo 23
Caboclo Society as an Anthropological Object of Analysis 26
The Construction of Invisibility I: The Nonequivalence of Amerindian and Caboclo Societies 29
The Construction of Invisibility II: Invisible Peasants 32
The Consequences of Invisibility 34
Images of the Other in Contemporary Amazonia: Caboclo and the Anthropological Other 40
Pristine Amazonia and the Perfect Other 43
Aspects of Caricature 45
3. Social System as a Function of Ecosystem: The Ecological Idiom in Amazonian Studies 56
The Peasant Landscape and Modern Amazonia 60
The Managed Ecosystem 71
Crocodile Tears: Modernization in Amazonia 74
Brazil as Client-state 77
The State as Broker 78
The Social Object 89
Part II: Caboclos in History
4. Santarém and the 'Failure' of Transamazônica 93
The Modernization Landscape 94
Peasants as a Default Category 100
The Metaphors of Stagnation and Pathology 108
The Boundaries of Santarém 109
The People of Santarém 112
A Sketch of Occupational Structure 116
Local Society Versus International Culture 117
Contingency and Permanence in Santareno Peasant Production 122
The City as Wreckage 125
Political Background 130
The Church 131
Facing the O Futuro 134
5. Exploring Santareno Identity: Kinship, Domestic Groups and Social Organization 137
Kindreds 140
Case Studies of Kindreds 155
Kindred Composition and the Transformation of 'Traditional' Society 171
6. Petty Commodity Production and Formal Subsumption: Caboclo Peasants 176
The Caboclo Complex 179
Petty Commodity Production: The 'Immigrant' Nordestino Complex 183
Formal Subsumption in the Absence of Real Subsumption 186
The 'Japanese Complex' 191
7. Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Blockage 199
Social Reproduction and the Petty Commodity Repertoire 202
Locating Merchant Capital 210
Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Use-values, Export of Surplus Value 210
Merchant Capital and Subordination 217
The Allocthanous Origins of Amazonian Peasantries 227
8. Maintaining the Image of Sustainable Development 230
The Specificity of Amazonianist Discourse 233
Sustainability versus Social Reproduction 235
Combú and Forest Management 246
The Future of Sustainability in Amazonia 254
Bibliography 256
Index 275
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