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This work brings together humanities writers to explore the potential and peril of reshaping the land, using diverse technologies such as barbed wire, printing and the rail road to meet perceived and possible transitory human needs.
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• * Preface * Acknowledgments
• *1. Amazonia in the Anthropocene
• *2. People
• *3. Soils
• *4. Plants
• *5. Forests
• *6. From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic? * Appendix: Useful Botanical Species Surveyed in Borba, Amazonas, Brazil * Notes * References * Index.
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Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world's largest tropical rainforest. Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kawa examines how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have shaped their environment, describing in vivid detail their use and management of the region's soils, plants, and forests. At the same time, he highlights the ways in which the Amazonian environment resists human manipulation and control-a vital reminder in this time of perceived human dominance. Written in engaging, accessible prose, Amazonia in the Anthropocene offers an innovative contribution to debates about humanity's place on the planet, encouraging deeper ecocentric thinking and a more inclusive vision of ecology for the future.
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• Introduction: Radical Social Cartographies (Bjorn Sletto)Part
• I1. Oral Narratives in the Rincon Zapoteco: A Cartography of Processes (Melquiades (Kiado) Cruz
• )2. Social Polygraphy: Territory as a Living Memorial to Culture and Nature (Alvaro Cesar Velasco Alvarez
• )3. Emulating Kuyujani: Boundary Making in the Caura River Basin, Venezuela (Nalua Rosa Silva Monterrey)Part I
• I4. Revealing Territorial Illusions and Political Fictions through Participatory Cartography (Wendy Pineda
• )5. Mapuche Cartography: Defending Ixofillmogen (Pablo Mansilla Quinones and Miguel Melin Pehuen
• )6. The Ethnocartography of Sumak Allpa: The Kichwa Indigenous Community of Pastaza, Ecuador (Alfredo Vitery and Alexandra Lamina
• )7. Social Cartography and Territorial Planning in Robles, Colombia (Carlos Alberto Gonzalez)Part II
• I8. New Social Cartography and Ethnographic Practice (Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida
• )9. Social Cartography and the Struggle for Multiethnic, Urban Indigenous Lands: The Case of the Beija-Flor Aldeia in Rio Preto da Eva, Brazil (Emmanuel de Almeida Farias Junior
• )10. Participatory Cultural Mapping in Nvwken, Mapuce Territory, Argentina: Exploring Other Forms of Territorial Representation (Maria Laura Nahuel
• )11. Political Appropriation of Social Cartography in Defense of Quilombola Territories in Alcantara, Maranhao, Brazil (Davi Pereira Junior)Commentary: What Sort of Territory? What Sort of Map? (Joe Bryan)Afterword (Charles R. Hale)ContributorsIndex.
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Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participatory mapping practices to develop new, innovative maps that reassert local concepts of place and space, thus harnessing the power of cartography in their struggles for justice. In twelve essays written by community leaders, activists, and scholars, Radical Cartographies critically explores the ways in which participatory mapping is being used by Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other traditional groups in Latin America to preserve their territories and cultural identities. Through this pioneering volume, the authors fundamentally rethink the role of maps, with significant lessons for marginalized communities across the globe, and launch a unique dialogue about the radical edge of a new social cartography.
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