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Amazonia and the Progress of Ethnology

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Daniel R. Gross
Daniel R. Gross*
Affiliation:
Hunter College and the Graduate School of CUNY
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , 1985 , pp. 200 - 222
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Copyright © 1985 by the University of Texas Press

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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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