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Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

by Stephen Nugent. 282 pgs.

Contributors:

   Stephen Nugent

Publisher:

   Berg

Place of Publication:

  Providence, RI  

Publication Year:

  1993

Subjects:

Caboclos (Brazilian People)--Brazil--Santaraem (Paraa)--Social Conditions, Caboclos (Brazilian People)--Brazil--Santaraem (Paraa)--Economic Conditions, Peasantry--Brazil--Santaraem (Paraa), Human Ecology--Brazil--Santaraem (Paraa)

	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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