MARAJÓ

mərəzhôˈ, island, c.150 mi (240 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, N Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. It divides the river into the Amazon proper and the Pará. Cattle are raised on the extensive eastern grasslands, and water buffaloes are bred in the low, swampy west. The island is famous for its prehistoric mounds, which yield handsome pottery.

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books on: MarajO  - 101 results

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Archeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Amazon
Book by Betty J. Meggers, Clifford Evans; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957
Subjects: Amapaa (Brazil : Territory)--Antiquities, Indians Of South America--Brazil, Marajao Island (Brazil)--Antiquities
...158 MARAJO ISLAND 168...Site J-17--Flor do Anajas 203 MARAJO ISLAND--Continued...The Marajoara Phase 259...
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Archeological Investigations on the Rio Napo, Eastern Ecuador
Book by Clifford Evans, Betty J. Meggers; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968
Subjects: Indians Of South America--Ecuador--Antiquities
...in 1950, when it became probable that the Marajoara Phase on the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon was derived from...techniques of decoration diagnostic of the Marajoara Phase, although only painted vessels had been...
3.
The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920
Book by Barbara Weinstein; Stanford University, 1983
Subjects: Rubber Industry And Trade--Brazil--History
...See Map 1 . Indeed, the Island of MaraJo, a mere fragment lodged in the Amazons...and overseas markets, and the Island of Marajo became a cattle-raising center of some...favored cattleraising zone was the Island of Marajo, whose low-lying eastern zone consisted...
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Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy along the Amazon
Book by Michael Goulding, Nigel J. H. Smith, Dennis J. Mahar; Columbia University Press, 1996
Subjects: Amazon River Valley--Environmental Conditions, Ecosystem Management--Amazon River Valley, Endangered Ecosystems--Amazon River Valley, Floodplain Ecology--Amazon River Valley, Nature--Effect Of Human Beings On--Amazon River Valley
...the mouth of the Rio Xingu. One large island, Marajo, dominates the estuary. Marajo is surrounded by ar Canoeing the canopy...Amazon River channel discharges to the north of Marajo, but a still substantial flow also moves to the...
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Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence
Book by Ronald A. Foresta; University Press of Florida, 1991
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journal articles on: MarajO  - 5 results

 
 
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1491: In Search of Native America
Journal article by W. George Lovell, Henry F. Dobyns, William M. Denevan, William I. Woods, Charles C. Mann; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, 2004
...indigenous examples: the earthworks of the Bolivian Beni, of Marajo Island, and of the Upper Xingu; forest modifications by clearing...1999; Petersen, Neves, and Heckenberger 2001). Reports from Marajo, Acre, Bolivia, Colombia, and Suriname all point to the widespread...
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Quilombo Country (2006): a Film by Leonard Abrams
Journal article by Phillip Gentile; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 44, 2007
Subjects: Cultural centers, Dance, Documentary films, Motion picture festivals, Musical instruments, Musical performances, Political systems, Religion
...quilombos of rural northern Brazil found in Itapicuru, the island of Marajo, and the Trombetas region of the Amazon Basin. Abrams work follows...their immediate environment. The quilombo of Bacabal, located in Marajo is linked to the folklore of Matita Pereira, a woman who appears...
3.
A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World. From Eden to the Mattole
Journal article by Alexander Cockburn; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1996
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay at 48 million, most of them feral. 11 Further north, these religious orders founded ranches on Marajo, the island in the mouth of the Amazon, in Sonora, in Texas and in Alta California. By the early nineteenth century, the...
4.
Seasonal Floodplain-Upland Migration along the Lower Amazon River *
Journal article by Antoinette M.G.A. Winklerprins; The Geographical Review, Vol. 92, 2002
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic aspects, Agriculture--Social aspects, Amazon River, Human geography--Economic aspects, Human geography--Social aspects, Land use--Social aspects
...Murrieta, R. S. S., D. L. Dufour, and A. D. Siqueira. 1999. Food Consumption and Subsistence in Three Caboclo Populations on Marajo Island, Amazonia, Brazil. Human Ecology 27 (3): 455-475. Myers, T. P. 1990. Sarayacu: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Investigations...
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Amazonia, 11,000+ B.C. to A.D. 1491
Journal article by William I. Woods; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...similar in both form and function to the earthen mounds that show up later in the record on the large, Amazon delta island of Marajo, among other places. These early cultural developments in the lowland tropical forest suggest that we need to continue rethinking...


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magazine articles on: MarajO  - 9 results

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Upstream, Downstream
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 42, November 1990
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Discovery, exploration, etc., Amazon River--Research
...ago. Squarely in the rivers mouth is Marajo, the worlds largest fluvial island, measuring...half submerged by seasonal rains. It is Marajo and her sisster islands Mexiana and Caviana...ocean. A delta on the seaward side of Marajo has not formed because the North Brazil...
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1491: Before It Became the New World, the Western Hemisphere Was Vastly More Populous and Sophisticated Than Has Been Thought ... the Amazon Rain Forest May Be Largely a Human Artifact
Magazine article by Charles C. Mann; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, March 2002
Subjects: Amazon River Region, Balee, William, Erickson, Clark, Native South Americans--History, Rain forests
...Clifford Evans, excavated a chiefdom on Marajo, an island twice the size of New Jersey...stopper in the mouth of the Amazon. The Marajoara, they concluded, were failed offshoots...Museum of Natural History, re-excavated Marajo. Her complete report, Moundbuilders of...
3.
Unknown Amazon
Magazine article by Colin Mcewan; History Today, Vol. 51, November 2001
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Exhibitions, British Museum--Exhibitions, Rain forests--Exhibitions
...archaeological styles they were discovering on Marajo Island could not have originated in the Amazon...range of pottery styles, not only within the Marajoara Tradition (AD 500-1500) on Marajo Island at the mouth of the Amazon, but also many...
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1491: Before It Became the New World, the Western Hemisphere Was Vastly More Populous and Sophisticated Than Has Been Thought-An Altogether More Salubrious Place to Live at the Time Than, Say, Europe. New Evidence of Both the Extent of the Population and Its Agricultural Advancement Leads to a Remarkable Conjecture: The Amazon Rain Forest May Be Largely a Human Artifact
Magazine article by Charles C. Mann; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, March 2002
Subjects: America--History, American history, Brazil--Natural resources, Rain forests--Environmental aspects
...Clifford Evans, excavated a chiefdom on Marajo, an island twice the size of New Jersey...stopper in the mouth of the Amazon. The Marajoara, they concluded, were failed offshoots...Museum of Natural History, re-excavated Marajo. Her complete report, Moundbuilders of...
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Cars from Coconuts
Magazine article by Jim Motavalli; E, Vol. 12, July 2001
Subjects: Automobile industry--Brazil, DaimlerChrysler AG--Environmental policy, Ford Motor Co.--Environmental policy, Sustainable development--Brazil
...stream. In the small community of Praia Grande on idyllic Marajo Island off Brazils northern coast, 10 workers are employed by...cars and trucks. There are eight facilities like the one on Marajo Island, and together they keep 900 farm families at work gathering...
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newspaper articles on: MarajO  - 3 results

 
 
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Neb Yn Gor-Yrru Yn Fan Hyn Mae'n Rhaid
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 18, 2006
...30 ETO i ddal y fferi i ynys Ilha do Marajo, ond rargol, roedd o werth o. Dyna i...hi mlaen. Hedfan ymlaen i Manaus ar Ol Marajo, ac rydan ni wedi bod yma ers tridiau...Heddlu ar gefn byffalos ar yr Ilha do Marajo Llun: Bethan Gwanas
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Ushering in the Green Season
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 30, 2009
Subjects: Shopping malls
...and deep-cleansing facial care products featuring Amazonian White Clay, drawn from the basin of Brazil rsquo;s Amazon River at Marajo Island. Highlighting efforts to save the Pasig River, now considered biologically dead, Kiehl rsquo;s took its guests on an...
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Life on the Line; Follow Writer Bethan Gwanas as She Journeys the Equator
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 22, 2007
...Ar Y Lein, Bethan begins her travels in Brazil, experiencing a religious festival in Belem, a buffalo ranch on the island of Marajo and visiting the Sahu Ape people of the Amazon. Her love of wandering began as a small child on the Dolgellau farmwhere she...


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encyclopedia articles on: MarajO  - 4 results

 
 
1.
MarajÓ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARAJO m r zho , island, c.150 mi (240 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, N Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. It divides...
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ParÁ , River, Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...320 km) long, N Brazil. It is actually the southeastern arm or estuary of the Amazon, divided from the rest of the river by Marajo island. It receives the waters of the Tocantins River. The port of Belem is on the right bank. ____________________ Copyright...
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ParÁ , State, Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rain forest, the hot, humid region is drained by the Amazon and its numerous tributaries. The state includes the island of Marajo as well as several other islands of the Amazon delta. The nearly constant rainfall has eroded soils to the point where conventional...
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Amazon , River, Peru and Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reaches its delta, with many islands formed by alluvial deposit and submergence of the land. Around the largest of these, Marajo , the river splits into two large streams. The northern stream is the principal outlet and threads its way around many islands...


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