AMAZON: SELECTED BOOKS

Anderson, Anthony B., ed. Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Balee, William. Footprints of the Forest: Ka`apor Ethnobotany— the Historical Ecology of Plat Utilization by an Amazonian People. New York, NY: Columbia
University Press, 1994.

Barbosa, Luiz. The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Global Ecopolitics, Development, and Democracy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Berwick, Dennison. Savages: The Life and Killing of the Yanomami. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992.

Borofsky, Robert, ed. Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy And What We Can Learn From It. Berkeley, CA; University of California Press, 2005.

Browder, J.O., and B.J. Godfrey. Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Bruhns, Karen Olsen. Ancient South America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Chagnon, Napoleon A. Yanomamo. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997.

Clay, Jason W. Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Forests: Models of Land Use and Management from Latin America. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc.
Greenwood Press, 1988.

Cleary, David. Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush. Iowa City, IO: University of Iowa Press, 1990.

Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett. Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.

Colchester, Marcus. Guyana Fragile Frontier: Loggers, Miners and Forest Peoples. London, UK: Latin American Bureau, 1997.

Collinson, Helen, ed. Green Guerrillas: Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. London, UK: Latin American Bureau, 1996.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: The Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.

Davis, Wade. One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Denevan, William M. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Descola, Philippe. The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle. New York, NY: The New Press, 1993.

---. In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Emmons, Louise H., and F. Feer. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Foresta, Ronald A. Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1991.

Gheerbrant, Alain. The Amazon: Past, Present, and Future. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1992.

Goulding, Michael. Fishes of the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980.

---, Nigel J.H. Smith, and Dennis J. Mahar. Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996.

---, Michael, Ronald Barthem, and Efrem Ferreira. The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.

Graeve, Bernard von. The Pacaa Nova: Clash of Cultures on the Brazilian Frontier. Lewiston, NY: Broadview Press, 1989.

Hames, Raymond B., and William T. Vickers, eds. Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1983.

Hecht, Susanna B., and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forests: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. London, UK: Verso, 1989.

Heckenberger, Michael J. The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000-2000. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.

Hemming, John. Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indian. London, UK: Macmillan, 1978.

Hemming, John, 2003, Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century. London, UK: Macmillan.

Hill, Jonathan D., ed. Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Kane, Joe. Savages. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Kimerling, Judith. Amazon Crude. Washington, D.C.: Green Ink, Inc., 1991.

Kricher, John. A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Le Breton, Binka. Voices from the Amazon. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1993.

Little, Paul E. Amazonia: Terrestrial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 2001.

Luna, Luis Eduardo, and Steven F. White, eds. Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press, 2000.

MacMillan, Gordon. At the End of the Rainbow? Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999.

McLain, M.E., R.L. Vctoria, and J.E. Richey. The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Meggers, Betty J. Amazonia: Man and Culture in a counterfeit Paradise. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Moran, Emilio F. Through Amazonian Eyes: The Human Ecology of Amazonian Populations. Iowa City. IO: University of Iowa Press, 1993.

Myers, Norman. The Primary Source: Tropical Forests & Our Future. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Nugent, Stephen. Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy. Oxford, UK: Berg, 1993.

---, and Mark Harris, eds. Some Other Amazonians: Perspectives On Modern Amazonia. London, UK: University of London Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2004.

O’Connor, Geoffrey. Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam, 1997.

Pace, Richard. The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupa Revisited. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.

Perkins, John, and Shakaim Mariano Shakai Ijisam Chumpi. Spirit of the Shuar: Wisdom from the Last Unconquered People of the Amazon. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 2001.

Picchi, Debra. The Bakairi Indians of Brazil: Politics, Ecology, and Change. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2000.

Pichon, Francisco J., J. Uquillas, and J. Frechione, eds. Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

Plotkin, Mark J. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1993.

---, and Lisa Famolare, eds. Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1992.

Posey, Darrell A. Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002.

---, and William Balee, eds. Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies. Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Gardens, 1989.

Prance, Ghillean T., and Thomas E. Lovejoy, eds. Amazonia. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1985.

Rabben, Linda. Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo and the Onslaught of Civilization. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Raffles, Hugh. In Amazonia: A Natural History, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Ramos, Alcida Rita. Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Reading, Alison J., Russell D. Thompson, and Andrew C. Millington. Humid Tropical Environments. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publications, Inc.

Redford, Kent, and Christine Padoch, eds. Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

---. The Forest Within: The World-view of the Tukano Amazonian Indians. Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, 1996.

Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004.

Rival, Laura. Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonia. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Roe, Peter G. The Cosmic Zygote: Cosmologies in the Amazon Basin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982.

Roosevelt, Anna C., ed. Amazonian Indians: From Prehistory to the Present. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Salomon, Frank, and Stuart B. Schwartz, eds. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Volume III South America. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Schmink, Marianne, and Charles Wood. Contested Frontiers in Amazonia. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Robert F. Raffauf. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press, 2004.

Sioli, Harold, ed. The Amazon: Limnology and Landscape of a Mighty River and Its Basin. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Dr. W. Junk, 1984.

Slater, Candace. Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

---. Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Smith, Anthony. Explorers of the Amazon. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Smith, Nigel J.H. The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories from a Vanishing World. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1996.

---. The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Smole, William J. The Yanoama Indians: A Cultural Geography. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1976.

Sponsel, Leslie E., ed. Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1995a.

---, Thomas N. Headland, and Robert C. Bailey, eds. Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Steward, Julian H., and Louis C. Faron. Native Peoples of South America. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959.

Stone, Roger D. Dreams of Amazonia. New York, NY: Penguin, 1993.

Sullivan, Lawrence E. Icanchu’s Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1988.

---, ed. Native Religions and Cultures of Central and South America: Anthropology of the Sacred. New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., 2002.

Tidwell, Mike. Amazon Stranger. New York, NY: Lyons and Burford, Publishers, 1996.

Tierney, Patrick. Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.

Urton, Gary, ed. Animal Myths and Metaphors in South America. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1985.

Wilbert, Johannes, ed. Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South America. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991.

---. Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

---, and Karin Simoneau, eds. Folk Literature of the Yanomami Indians. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1990.

Williams, Michael. Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Wilson, David J. Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present: An Ecological Perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.

Wood, Charles H., and Roberto Porro, eds. Patterns and Processes of Land Use and Deforestation in the Amazon. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2002.

Ziegler-Otero, Lawrence. Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaroani Organizing against the Global Economy. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2004.