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A folded, laminated pocket identification guide illustrating primates of the state of Rondonia, Brazil
General study of Brazil - covers history, demographic aspects and geographical aspects, ethnic groups, social structure, social change, religious practice, education, health, the economy (economic policies, industrial sector, agricultural sector, banking system, monetary policies, trade), government, politics, political partys, international relations, military service, defence, administration of justice. Bibliography, glossary, maps, organigram, photographs, statistical tables.
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that “the region’s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!” Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews. During the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber tappers invading the Wari’ lands raided the native villages, shooting and killin...
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Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
This book shows the wonders of Brazil, its states and its welcoming people.
This book mostly illustrates recently collected lichens from the Brazilian state of Rondônia, which is a an Amazonian state bordering Bolivia. Although it is 5000 km from the see, it is already lowland at around 100 m altitude. For several species it is the first pulished colour picture. New species Cryptothecia reagens Aptroot & Schumm sp. nov. Diorygma fissuroxanthonicum Aptroot & Schumm sp. nov. Micarea bacillispora Aptroot & Schumm sp. nov. Micarea isidiothallina Aptroot & Schumm sp. nov. Neosergipea rubrosorediata Aptroot & Schumm sp.nov. New combination Fissurina bothynocarpa (Redinger) Aptroot & Schumm comb. nov.; basionym Graphina bothynocarpa Redinger, Ark. Bot. 27A(no. 3): 96, fig. 3 (1935). Mycobank 850738.
Social deprivations coincide with vast deforestation in Brazil's Legal Amazon, or Amazônia. Poverty reduction and sustainable development require renewed efforts to protect the region's exceptional natural wealth, coupled with a shift from an extractive to a productivity-oriented growth model.