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Overview"For many the phrase ""gold rush"" conjures up images of the 1849ers panning for gold in the western United States. But in 1979, the biggest gold rush of this century began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued unabated ever since. Despite attempts by governments and mining companies to control it, the Amazon gold rush has flourished, involving hundreds of thousands of miners in an informal-sector industry which produces over a billion dollars' worth of gold annually. Moreover, the mining activity has become famous--or infamous--well beyond Brazil, thanks to the furor it has raised in the environmental community. This important anthropological study takes the first broad and balanced look at the gold rush to explain its history, the social organization of the gold camps, the politics and the economics of gold in Brazil, and the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David ClearyPublisher: University of Iowa Press Imprint: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 9780877452621ISBN 10: 0877452628 Pages: 287 Publication Date: 01 September 1990 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsCleary has produced a marvelous book on illegal gold mining activities in Brazil's Amazon. -- Choice Author InformationDavid Cleary is a research fellow in the Department of Business Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He lived in the Brazilian Amazon for two years while doing research for his PhD. in social anthropology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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