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Amazonia and the Progress of Ethnology

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AMAZON ECONOMICS: THE SIMPLICITY OF SHIPIBO INDIAN WEALTH. By BERGMANROLAND W. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1980. Pp. 249. $18.25.)

THE PANARE: TRADITION AND CHANGE ON THE AMAZONIAN FRONTIER. By HENLEYPAUL. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp. 263. $32.50.)

FROM THE MILK RIVER: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PROCESSES IN NORTHWEST AMAZONIA. By HUGH-JONESCHRISTINE. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. 302. $29.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Daniel R. Gross*
Affiliation:
Hunter College and the Graduate School of CUNY
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Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

I thank Silêde Gross, Roberto Motta, Gustavo Sérgio Lins Ribeiro, and Joshua Rubin for useful suggestions on the first draft of this article. I am solely responsible for its content.

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