Black Hats and Smooth Hands: Elite Status, Environmentalism, and Work among the Ranchers of Acre, Brazil

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 60-72

  Hoelle, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Elites; Environmentalism; Ranchers; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870350618     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2012.01080.x     Document Type: Article

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