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Destructive patterns of Amazonian evolution are now endangering Northern Brazil--driven by the gold rush and demographic and economic forces from the South. The Forest Frontier assesses whether the Northern Amazonian states can avoid the same pressures and problems that affect the peoples and environments of the South.

Relatively untouched but on the brink of development, Roraima is of special environmental interest because of its extensive savannas and varied forests--the home of some of the largest and most diverse groups of indigenous Indians. In a detailed and original analysis, the contributors present a critical assessment of the nature and pace of agricultural advance into Roraima, provide precise rates for deforestation and examine the reasons for destruction. The book presents a range of strategies to cope with the inevitable development to come. ... Read more

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Brazilians in the United States are a relatively new wave of immigrants from South America. In the past their vast country of origin was used to receiving immigrants, not sending them out. The shift is new, and these arrivals do not necessarily fit comfortably in the midst of the huge Spanish-speaking U.S. immigration. This volume offers a broad-ranging discussion of an understudied population and also brings insights into the core issues of immigration research: how immigration can complicate issues of social class, race, and ethnicity, how it intersects with the educational system, and how it fits into the assimilation paradigm.

Within the three broad categories that separate these 14 chapters, discussions by the 24 contributors illuminate the various facets of Brazilian immigration and put them in the broader context of life in the twenty-first century. Discussions of cultural icons like Carmen Miranda and Carnival, of Brazilian immigrant women, of the new generation, and of the economy of remittances are just a few examples of the wide range of topics covered in these pages.

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Water regimes governed by seasonality are sensitive to climatological disturbances and human interventions. The Brazilian Cerrados region is characterized by a pronounced dry season of around six months. During this period, natural vegetation and agricultural crops are dependable on groundwater. The Cerrado natural vegetation is adapted to the local climate but the cash-crops cultivated there not. Irrigation is responsible for the maintenance of high productivities during the whole year, and the availability of water resources made it possible. Today, with almost all Cerrado vegetation replaced by agriculture, information about the spatio-temporal dynamics of the water table is important to optimize and balance the interest of economical and ecological purposes in Brazil?s agricultural frontier. This work aims to characterize water resources in a watershed located in a representative Cerrado area by analyzing monitoring data of water heads. We model water table dynamics combining time series modeling and spatial analysis, in order to estimate the water volume lost during a specific season, account for systematic changes in the water regime and predict risks of extreme water levels. ... Read more

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An Asian Brazilian is a Brazilian-born person of Asianancestry. Brazil received many immigrants from Asia, bothfrom → Middle East and → East Asia. The first Asianimmigrants to arrive in Brazil were a small number of →Chinese people (3,000) during the colonial period. However,significant immigration from Asia to Brazil started in thelate 19th century, when immigration from → Lebanon and →Syria became important. Most Asian Brazilians have roots inEast Asia, most of them → Japanese. The first Japaneseimmigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Until the 1950s, morethan 250 thousand Japanese immigrated to Brazil. Nowadays,the Japanese-Brazilian population is estimated at 1.5million people. It is, by far, the largest → ethnic Japanesepopulation outside → Japan. Other East Asian groups are alsosignificant in Brazil. The → Korean Brazilian population isestimated to be 50,000, and the → Chinese Brazilianpopulation around 160,000. Over 70% of Asian Brazilians areconcentrated in the state of São Paulo. There aresignificant populations in Paraná, Pará, Mato Grosso do Suland other parts of Brazil. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rio Grande do Norte (lit. "Great River of the North", in reference to the mouth of the Potengi River, Portuguese pronunciation: [?iu ?????di du ?n??ti]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the edge of the South American continent. Because of its geographic position, Rio Grande do Norte has a strategic importance. The capital and largest city is Natal. It is the land of the folklorist Luís da Câmara Cascudo and, according to NASA, it has the purest air in South America. Its 410 km (254 mi) of sand, much sun, coconut palms and lagoons are responsible for the fame of beaches. Is also part of its territory the islands of Rocas Atoll. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Brazilian highlands (Portuguese: Planalto Brasileiro) are an extensive geographical region, covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all approximately half of the country's land area, or some 4,000,000 km² (1,544,000 sq mi). In addition, the vast majority of Brazil's population (186,112,794 2004 est.) lives in the highlands or on the narrow coastal region immediately adjacent to it. Ancient basaltic lava flows gave birth to much of the region. However, the time of dramatic geophysical activity is long past, as there is now no seismic or volcanic activity. Erosion has also played a large part in shaping the Highlands, forming extensive sedimentary deposits and wearing down the mountains. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2212 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Rural Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil is succeeding in its goal of organizing peasants into production and marketing cooperatives and giving them their own land to till and live above subsistence levels. The organization's socialist character does not prevent it to compete effectively in the marketplace and allow individual households to own individual garden plots on which are planted crops of their choice.

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Title: Edible ideology? Survival strategies in Brazilian land-reform settlements.
Author: Wendy Wolford
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v86Issue: n3Page: p457(5)

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Brazilians (brasileiros in Portuguese) are all people born in Brazil. A Brazilian can be also a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or a foreigner living in Brazil who applied for Brazilian citizenship. The vast majority of Brazilians live in Brazil, although there are significant Brazilian communities in Paraguay, the United States, Japan, and Europe. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Uatumã River is a river flowing through the state of Amazonas in the Manaus area of Brazil. A tributary of the Amazon River, it is known for its extensive peacock population. During the wet season starting in December, water levels can rise some 25 to 40 feet. Water levels have been strongly affected by the building of the controversial Balbina Dam on the river in the mid to late 1980s to generate electricity. The hydroelectric dam generates an average of 112.2 MW of electricity from the river system and floods a total of 2360 km2 of rainforest around the Uatumã river. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Trindade and Martim Vaz is an archipelago located about 1,200 kilometers east of Vitória in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The archipelago has a total area of 10.4 km²and a population of 32. The archipelago consists of six islands; Trindade being the largest island, with an area of 10.1 km² and Martim Vaz the second largest, with an area of 0.3 km² . The islands are of volcanic origin and have rugged terrain. They are largely barren, except for the southern part of Trindade. They were discovered in 1502 by Portuguese explorer Estêvão da Gama and stayed Portuguese until they became part of Brazil at its independence. From 1890 to 1896, Trindade was occupied by the United Kingdom until an agreement with Brazil was reached. During the period of British occupation, Trindade was known as "South Trinidad". ... Read more

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Red Gold covers the history of the Brazilian Indians from 1500 to 1760, from the point of first contact through to their conquest by the Portuguese. The first contacts between Europeans and stone-age natives aroused mutual wonder and even admiration. The Indians appeared to the Portuguese as 'people good and of pure simplicity' and so the myth of the 'noble savage' was born. The whites seemed god-like beings whom the Indians venerated for the metal knives and axes which would help them wrest a living from the jungle. However, this uneasy friendship was not to last. The colonists revealed themselves as brutal, greed fuelled men who abused the hospitality of the Indians, using their women as concubines and their men as slaves. As if this wasn't enough. European disease and tribal vendettas - stirred by the colonists - depleted and depopulated the tribes. This terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement, details the subjugation of almost 2,500,000 people, and starts a historical trilogy of breathtaking ambition. ... Read more

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The book on Brazil, Uruguay and the natives
This book is simply the best and one of the only books on the Indians of Brazil and Uruguay and the conquest of them.This is an amazing wide ranging study from the missionaries to the slave trade to the many indian nations in Brazil.

Rivers of Blood
The story of how the Portuguese came to rule Brazil takes us to the "Pope Line" of Alexander VI, which split South America into two pieces.Most of it fell within the Spanish hemisphere, but, as fate would have it, the eastern slab (roughly, where Brazil is) went to Portugal.Given the absence of mineral deposits, the colonists resorted to exploiting human population.The tale of Brazil's conquest is a grim story of progressive accretion, acre by acre, tribe by tribe, with only the Jesuits serving to moderate the excesses of the colonists.Needless to say, the Jesuits were soon eliminated as a threat (this is depicted in the Morricone film "The Mission") and the Brazilian interior given over to plunder.Hemmings also takes us through the Dutch and French interludes, wherein Portugal stood to lose its dominions to these interlopers.There are few heroes on the European side in this epic, however there are a number of brave tribesmen who succeeded, always temporarily, in holding back the advance.

Much more than a formal history text.
A terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement on the native population of Brazil. Hemming has introduced a style and content that makes this as much a story book as a formal text book. Thebrutal and tragic consequences of the meeting of two extremely diverse cultures are brought to life in this book, with the greed and self-righteousness of the Portugese settlers set against the innocence and primitive nature of the indigenous 'Indians'. Anybody with an interest in the history of Brazil would find this a truly fascinating read.

Much more than a formal history text.
A terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement on the native population of Brazil. Hemming has introduced a style and content that makes this as much a story book as a formal text book. Thebrutal and tragic consequences of the meeting of two extremely diverse cultures are brought to life in this book, with the greed and self-righteousness of the Portugese settlers set against the innocence and primitive nature of the indigenous 'Indians'. Anybody with an interest in the history of Brazil would find this a truly fascinating read. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Historical Geography, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Private colonization is the use of companies and cooperatives to survey, demarcate and occupy land, build infrastructure, open roads, plan urban areas, and provide health services and education. Although state-directed colonization projects are strongly implicated in recent environmental and social changes in the Brazilian Amazon, areas settled by private colonization were larger than state-led settlement. The paper considers this poorly examined aspect of the region's recent settlement history by focusing upon a colonization cooperative and private company that settled smallholders from southern Brazil to eastern Mato Grosso State between 1970 and 1980. The analysis emphasizes how private colonization cooperatives successfully secured land title, setting the stage for subsequent commercial agricultural development. This study rejects prevailing interpretations of private colonization as a tool of authoritarian government in Brazil. Rather, private colonization secured land tenure and organized an economically viable production system in a frontier environment of unpredictable state bureaucracies, high transaction costs, risk, and precarious markets. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2312 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The urbanization of Brazil's Amazon region is largely segmented and follows no definite pattern. This characteristic does not connote chaos or randomness but an irregular pattern of development that goes along with the indigenous population's choice of socioeconomic locations. The urbanization phenomenon may surprise geographers and journalists who still hold stereotypical views of the Amazon as an untamed jungle.

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Title: Disarticulated urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon.
Author: Brian J. Godfrey
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v86Issue: n3Page: p441(5)

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 2009. The length of the article is 8203 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: In the late 1980s more than 1 million Brazilians left Brazil without returning. Today an estimated 2 million Brazilians live abroad, 1.2 million of them in the United States. In this article I show that Brazilians migrate for a variety of reasons, including the geographical imagination. Why are so many Brazilians leaving for the United States? What are their geographical imaginations, and how are they described in their migration process? Using primary and secondary data and multiple methods, I address these questions by providing insights into Brazilian migrants' place perceptions, experiences, and reasons for migrating, focusing on the geographical imagination. Those migrants who end up returning to Brazil are more likely to cite financial and curiosity reasons for having migrated. A web of transnational religious and social networks sustains those immigrants who remain in the United States. Reasons for migrating are not economic alone; rather, they are based on interrelated and complex factors that range from adventure to curiosity, the cultural influence of the United States, family members, education, and escape. Keywords: Brazilian immigration, ethnic geography, geographical imagination, humanistic geography, reasons for migrating.

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Title: Brazilian immigration to the United States and the geographical imagination.(Report)
Author: Alan P. Marcus
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2009
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 99Issue: 4Page: 481(18)

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 1998. The length of the article is 447 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon.(Review)
Author: Nigel J.H. Smith
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1998
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 88Issue: 2Page: 310(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Historical Geography, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The Amazon region has long been a place of economic booms and busts. Much attention in the historical literature on Amazonia has focused on the largest and most famous regional economic boom, the Rubber Boom, a period of sustained economic prosperity for some from 1860 to 1920. Other 'booms' have occurred in the region as well and this paper describes and discusses one of those others. The paper demonstrates how an export economy in a global periphery (coffee in Brazil) affected economic development in a periphery of that same country and makes a methodological contribution by demonstrating how ethnographic research can contribute to an understanding of a historical period when the paper trail is weak. Jute, a fiber crop, dominated agricultural production along the Amazon River floodplain in the reach between Manaus and Santarem, Brazil, from the late 1930s until the early 1990s. The crop was introduced to the region by Japanese immigrants in order to supply the demand for jute sacking in the south of Brazil where such sacks were used to package commodities, especially coffee. Local smallholder cultivators grew and processed jute, production being mediated initially through Japanese middlemen, later by Brazilians. Poor fiber quality, several external shocks, including the removal of tariffs on imported jute, and especially changes in commodity packaging such as bulk handling and the use of synthetic sacks instead of jute sacks for the transport of coffee beans, the Amazonian jute market collapsed in the early 1990s. Despite its collapse, the legacy of the boom is still evident in the physical and social landscapes in the region. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 8224 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: ABSTRACT. This study examines the role of service workers in creating a secure landscape in a zone of gated communities near Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Most research on gated communities emphasizes their segregation and formal security apparatuses. In fact, gated communities interact with surrounding rural settlements because they draw their service employees from them. Security emerges from informal relationships of trust that property owners establish with service workers. Gardeners, especially, enable homeowners to project their property investment to others through landscaping. Equally of importance, a manicured garden conveys the message that a home is receiving daily attention-and is secure-even if the owner is not present. The study probes this interdependence from the point of view of gardeners in the context of one gated community in an area south of Belo Horizonte and the attempts by members of its homeowners association to minimize the sense of fear they associate with the Brazilian city. Keywords: Brazil, gardens, gated communities, security, service workers.

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Title: Their space: security and service workers in a brazilian gated community.(Report)
Author: Jacquelyn Chase
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 98Issue: 4Page: 476(20)

Article Type: Report

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8934 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: Brazil, land-cover change, tropical savanna, remote sensing, Cerrado, environmental policy

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Title: A disappearing biome? Reconsidering land-cover change in the Brazilian savanna.
Author: Wendy Jepson
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 171Issue: 2Page: 99(13)

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