Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Utopias and Dystopias in the Amazonian Social Landscape

Chapter 3 Landscape Transformation and Language Change: A Case Study in Amazonian Historical Ecology

Chapter 4 Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries

Chapter 5 ‘Sempre Ajeitando’ (Always Adjusting): An Amazonian Way of Being in Time1

Chapter 6 Traditional Peoples: Introduction to the Political Ecology Critique of a Notion

Chapter 7 The Domestic Economy in Mamirauá, Tefé, Amazonas State

Chapter 8 Patterns of Resource Use by Caboclo Communities in the Middle-Lower Amazon

Chapter 9 Agriculture Intensification, Economic Identity, and Shared Invisibility in Amazonian Peasantry: Caboclos and Colonists in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 10 The Use of and Access to Forest Resources: The Caboclos of the Lower Amazon and Their Socio-Cultural Attributes

Chapter 11 Women, Gender Relations and Decision-Making in Caboclo Households in the Amazon Estuary

Chapter 12 ‘I Love Flowers’: Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil

Chapter 13 Bread of the Land: The Invisibility of Manioc in the Amazon

Chapter 14 Socio-Ecology of Health and Disease: The Effects of Invisibility on the Caboclo Populations of The Amazon

Chapter 15 Conclusion