Speculative accumulation: Property-making in the Brazilian Amazon

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-259

  Campbell, Jeremy M ^a  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Colonization; Environmental governance; Historicity; Land tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903577260     PISSN: 19354932     EISSN: 19354940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12078     Document Type: Article

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