Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

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Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little serious attention. This volume aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It traces the development of caboclo societies and argues that much of the current discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Maps Maps Glossary Preface Part I Caboclos Out of History 1. Introduction The Specificity of an Historical Peasantry 2. Invisible Caboclos, Visible Nature The Concept of Caboclo Caboclo Society as an Anthropological Object of Analysis The Construction of Invisibility I: The Non-equivalence of Amerindian and Caboclo Societies The Construction of Invisibility II: Invisible Peasants The Consequences of Invisibility Images of the Other in Contemporary Amazonia: Caboclo and the Anthropological Other Pristine Amazonia and the Perfect Other Aspects of Caricature 3. Social System as a Function of Ecosystem: The Ecological Idiom in Amazonian Studies The Peasant Landscape and Modem Amazonia The Managed Ecosystem Crocodile Tears: Modernization in Amazonia Brazil as Client-state The State as Broker The Social Object Part II: Caboclos in History 4. Santarém and the 'Failure' of Transamazônica The Modernization Landscape Peasants as a Default Category The Metaphors of Stagnation and Pathology The Boundaries of Santarém The People of Santarém A Sketch of Occupational Structure Local Society Versus International Culture Contingency and Permanence in Santareno Peasant Production The City as Wreckage Political Background The Church Facing the O Futuro 5. Exploring Santareno Identity: Kinship, Domestic Groups and Social Organization Kindreds Case Studies of Kindreds Kindred Composition and the Transformation of 'Traditional' Society 6. Petty Commodity Production and Formal Subsumption: Caboclo Peasants The Caboclo Complex Petty Commodity Production: The 'Immigrant' Nordestino Complex Formal Subsumption in the Absence of Real Subsumption The 'Japanese Complex' 7. Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Blockage Social Reproduction and the Petty Commodity Repertoire Locating Merchant Capital Merchant Capital, Social Reproduction and Use-values, Export of Surplus Value Merchant Capital and Subordination The Allocthanous Origins of Amazonian Peasantries 8. Maintaining the Image of Sustainable Development The Specificity of Amazonianist Discourse Sustainability versus Social Reproduction Combú and Forest Management The Future of Sustainability in Amazonia Bibliography Index