Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

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