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- catalog abstract ""Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment."--Pub. desc.".
- catalog contributor b8575375.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment."--Pub. desc.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-[192]) and index.".
- catalog description "The quickening pulse of Amazonian life -- Indian gold : The rush of the Yanomami reserve -- Just keep on digging away : Smallholder agriculture and gold mining -- The golden cow? Ranching and mining -- Local prospects : Riverine dwellers, indians and mining -- The politics of gold mining -- The destruction of Eden? -- Placing the Amazonian gold rush in perspective.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 199 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231103549".
- catalog identifier "0231103557 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Methods and cases in conservation science".
- catalog isPartOf "Perspectives in biological diversity series".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Brazil Roraima.".
- catalog subject "338.2/741/098114 20".
- catalog subject "Gold miners Brazil Roraima.".
- catalog subject "Gold mines and mining Brazil Roraima.".
- catalog subject "HD9536.B83 R676 1995".
- catalog subject "Yanomamo Indians Brazil Roraima.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The quickening pulse of Amazonian life -- Indian gold : The rush of the Yanomami reserve -- Just keep on digging away : Smallholder agriculture and gold mining -- The golden cow? Ranching and mining -- Local prospects : Riverine dwellers, indians and mining -- The politics of gold mining -- The destruction of Eden? -- Placing the Amazonian gold rush in perspective.".
- catalog title "At the end of the rainbow? : gold, land, and people in the Brazilian Amazon / Gordon MacMillan.".
- catalog type "text".