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Authors: Hugh Raffles

In Amazonia (56 page)

Berlant, Lauren,
209n.8

Berrio, Antonio de,
86
–
88
,
93

Berry, Leonard,
112

Bhabha, Homi,
247n.81

Bible, and New World discoveries,
96

Bormann, Herbert,
172
–
73

botanical espionage,
129

British Broadcasting Corporation,
157

British Museum,
128
,
133
,
137

Brown, Edwin,
130
–
31

BRUMASA,
40
–
41
,
44
–
49
,
73

Buarque, Manoel,
15
–
18

Butler, Samuel,
148

Cabanagem,
115
,
140
,
237n.3

Cametá,
126

Campbell, Mary,
90

Canabre, Anthony,
92

Canal de Igarapé-Miri,
12
–
23

Canal do Norte,
110

canals.
See
landscape, anthropogenic

Carambola,
15
–
23

Carman, Allan,
160
–
62

carvados
.
See
landscape, anthropogenic

Casiquiare Canal,
219n.69
,
236n.142

Castelnau, Comte Francis de,
249n.100

Catholic Base Communities,
63

Certeau, Michel de,
93

Chakrabarty, Dipesh,
207n.6

Chandless, William,
129

channels.
See
landscape, anthropogenic

Chapman, George,
94

Chermont de Miranda, Vicente,
27
–
29
,
31
,
179

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species),
158
,
253n.27

Cleary, David,
224n.28
,
237n.142
,
241n.30
,
248n.88

clientalism,
193
–
94
. See also
fregueses, patrões

clients. See
fregueses

Clifford, James,
248n.93

Clodd, Edward,
137
,
148

Cohn, Bernard S.,
243n.46

collecting: of
açaí
for trade,
202
; natural history,
119
–
20
,
128
,
141
–
44
.
See also
specimens, natural history

collecting expeditions, Amazonian,
249n.100

collections, natural history,
9
–
10
,
99
,
130
–
32
; of Bates,
136
–
37

CPRM,
59

Cunha, Euclides da,
214n.43

Daniel, Padre João,
129

Darwin, Charles,
14
,
118
,
130
,
132
–
33
,
238n.9

De Bry, Theodore,
97
,
100
–
101
,
107

Dee, John,
97
,
99

Denevan, William,
37
,
219n.69

discovery, of New World,
6
,
95
–
101
,
114

Distant, William L.,
129
–
30
,
133

Doubleday, Edward,
128

Du Chaillu, Paul,
148

ecology,
154
–
60
,
171
–
75
,
178
–
79
; cultural,
35
–
38
; non-equilibrium,
172
–
74
,
256n.53
; restoration,
257n.60
; systems,
257n.57

economic botany,
142
–
44

Edwards, William H.,
140
,
244n.50
,
248n.89

Ega (Tefe),
125
,
135
,
141
,
144
–
46
,
249n.100

El Dorado,
79
–
80
,
83
,
86
–
87
,
104

Eldorado de Carajás,
155

Elizabeth I,
79
,
81
,
83
,
94

Ellis, John,
233n.87

Evans, Clifford,
36

Ferreira, Alexandre Rodrigues,
129

fire.
See
landscape, anthropogenic

Foucault, Michel,
183
,
232n.79
,
241n.35
,
260n.12

fregueses
,
50
–
53
,
56
–
57
,
65
–
66
,
185
,
191
–
94
. See also
patrões

Freud, Sigmund,
44
,
220n.1

frontier,
151
–
53
,
224n.28
,
225n.6
,
250n.6

Geertz, Clifford,
122

Gerbi, Antonello,
241n.29

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
177
–
78

Goodwin, Hugh,
92
–
93

Gray, John,
137

Greenblatt, Stephen,
93
,
233n.82

Gregory, Steven,
251n.14

Gresham College,
98

Grupo CAEMI,
40

Guiana,
chap. 4
passim

Haila, Yrjö,
158

Hakluyt, Richard,
96
,
128
;
Discourse of Western Planting
,
78
–
79
;
Principal Navigations
,
81
,
100

Harcourt, Robert,
92

Hariot, Thomas,
97
,
99

Harlow, Vincent,
77

Heaney, Seamus,
231n.67

Hill, Christopher,
98

Hooker, Joseph Dalton,
118
,
130
,
132
,
238n.9

Hooker, William,
128
,
133

Howard, Albert,
141

Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study,
172
–
73

Hudson, W. H.,
27
–
28

Hulme, Peter,
101

Humboldt, Alexander von,
128
,
141
,
144
,
237n.2
,
239n.11
,
246n.62
;
Personal Narrative
,
114
,
123
–
24
,
131
;
Essai sur la géographie des plantes
,
141
–
42

Hurlbert, S. H.,
255n.47

Huxley, T. H.,
118
,
238n.9

IBAMA,
155
–
57
,
160
,
187
–
88

igapó
forest,
23
,
31

Igarapé-Miri,
21
–
22
.
See also
Canal de Igarapé-Miri

Igarapé Nazário,
32

Igarapé Novo,
39

IMAZON,
158
,
172

INCRA,
64
–
65
,
67

intimacies,
7
–
11
,
34
,
125
–
27
,
168
,
170
,
175
–
79
,
chap. 7
passim
,
208n.8

Jacob, Paulo,
222n.20

Kayapó Indigenous Area,
155

Kepler, Johannes,
97

Keymis, Lawrence,
80
,
93
–
95
,
108
,
112

Kincaid, Jamaica,
46

Koch-Grünberg, Teodor,
219n.69

Kropotkin, Peter,
120
–
21

Kubitschek, Juscelino,
250n.6

landscape,
4
–
6
,
34
–
35
,
153
,
174
; anthropogenic,
18
–
22
,
26
–
27
,
31
–
34
,
38
–
43
,
57
–
62
,
106
,
108
,
153
,
214n.43
,
215n.45
,
257n.60

Las Casas, Bartolomé de:
Brevissima relacion …
,
89
;
On Royal Power
,
230n.54

Latour, Bruno,
181
–
82
,
244n.49
,
255n.44

Leavens, Charles,
14
–
15

Leigh, Charles,
112

Lévi-Strauss, Claude,
152

Ley, John,
112

Likens, Gene,
172
–
73

Lingis, Alphonso,
182
–
83

Linnaean Society,
118

Linnaean taxonomy,
131
–
32
,
135
; and mahogany trade,
163

Linnaeus, Carolus,
245n.54
,
249n.94
;
Systema naturae
,
116

Lobato, Eladio,
17
–
21

locality,
47
–
49
,
53
–
62
,
68
–
74
,
113
,
135
,
174
,
182
–
83

local knowledge,
90
–
93
,
141
–
46
,
169
–
70

logging industry,
40
–
41
,
44
–
49
,
154
–
60
,
165
,
252n.23
,
261n.17

Lorimer, Joyce,
85

Lyell, Charles,
238n.9

Macapá,
42
,
44
,
67
; and
açaí
trade,
193
–
99
;
zona franca
,
196
,
263n.31

mahogany (
Swietenia macrophylla
),
154
–
75

Mahogany Association,
163

Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von,
143
,
249n.100

Martyr, Peter,
96

Massey, Doreen,
183
,
207n.6
,
208n.7

McCann, Joseph,
26

Mechanics' Institutes,
119
–
20

Meggers, Betty,
36
,
48
,
229n.39

Métraux, Alfred,
38
,
48

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de,
95
–
96
,
108

Monte Sião,
31

Moraes, Raymundo,
221n.7

MST,
155
,
252n.21

Murra, John,
142

Murray, John,
132
–
33

Myers, L. H.,
17
–
18
,
34

natural history,
9
,
131
–
32
,
209n.9
.
See also
Bates, Henry Walter
;
collections, natural history
;
specimens, natural history

natural selection,
118
,
123
,
132
–
33

Nicolson, Malcolm,
131

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
260n.12

Nimuendajú, Curt,
24

Nordenskiöld, Erland,
219n.69
;

Odum, H. T.,
173
,
257n.57

Oiapoque colony (1604–6),
112

Ojer, Pablo,
78

Orinoco, English exploration of,
75
–
76
,
83
–
85
,
102
–
5

Owen, Robert,
120
–
21

palm-heart. See
açaí

Paragominas,
11
,
151
,
176

Parente, Bento Maciel,
112

patrões
,
45
,
50
–
53
,
56
–
57
,
65
–
66
,
173
,
184
–
85
,
190
–
94
. See also
fregueses

Payson, William,
163
–
65

Pires, João Murça,
23
,
108

place.
See
locality

POLAMAZONIA,
40

Poovey, Mary,
247n.76

pororoca
,
17
–
18
,
73

Posey, Darrell,
37

Prance, Ghillean,
23
,
108

Pratt, Mary,
141

Quesada, Gonzalo Jiménez de,
87

Quesada, Hernán Perez de,
87

Ralegh, Walter,
8
,
chap. 4
passim
,
128
,
162
;
Apologie
,
76
;
Discoverie
…,
78
,
83
–
86
,
90
–
91
,
93
–
94
,
99
–
110
,
227n.15
,
229n.39
;
History of the World
,
79
,
96
; rise of,
81
–
83
; voyages to Guiana,
79
–
80
,
83
–
85
,
87
–
95

Ralegh, Wat,
93

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