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  title info:
    title: Amazonia in the Anthropocene
    sub title: people, soils, plants, forests
  name:
    name part: Kawa, Nicholas C.
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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." -- Back cover.
  table of contents: Amazonia in the anthropocene -- People -- Soils -- Plants -- Forests -- From the anthropocene to the ecozoic?.
  note: Nicholas C. Kawa.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: sa-----
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Effect of environment on
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  subject:
    geographic: Amazon River Region
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnobiology
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Effect of environment on
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Indians of South America
    topic: Ethnobiology
  subject:
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  classification: GF532.A4 K39 2016
  classification: 304.20981/1
  classification: Z UA380.8 K179am
  identifier: 9781477307991 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1477307990 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781477308448 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 147730844X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781477308004 (library e-book)
  identifier: 9781477308011 (nonlibrary e-book)
  identifier: 2015021607
  record info:
    record content source: TxU/DLC
    record creation date: 150604
    record change date: 20170927140707.0
    record identifier: in00003716751
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng