At the end of the rainbow? : gold, land, and people in the Brazilian Amazon

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Title:

Author:

Macmillan, Gordon.

ISBN:

9780231103541

9780231103558

9781853832321

Personal Author:

Macmillan, Gordon.

Publication Information:

New York : Columbia University Press, c1995.

Physical Description:

xvii, 199 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Methods and cases in conservation science

Series Title:

Methods and cases in conservation science

Contents:

1. The Quickening Pulse of Amazonian Life -- 2. Indian Gold: The Rush to the Yanomami Reserve -- 3. Just keep on digging away: Smallholder agriculture and gold mining -- 4. The Golden Cow? Ranching and Mining -- 5. Local Prospects: Riverine Dwellers, Indians and Mining -- 6. The Politics of Gold Mining -- 7. The Destruction of Eden? -- 8. Placing the Amazonian Gold Rush in Perspective.

Subject Term:

Gold mines and mining -- Brazil -- Roraima.

Gold miners -- Brazil -- Roraima.

Yanomamo Indians -- Brazil -- Roraima.

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Summary

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.