Agriculture intensification, economic identity, and shared invisibility in amazonian peasantry: Caboclos and colonists in comparative perspective

Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment: Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-214

  Brondizio, Eduardo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A a palm; Agriculture intensification; Economic identity; Land use; Rural development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952587660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_9     Document Type: Chapter

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