Bacon, Francis, 245n.54
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 30, 186
Balée, William, 37
bandeirantes, 221n.9, 250n.6
Banks, Joseph, 98, 242n.43
Baptista de Moura, Ignácio, 15, 28, 212n.9
Barlow, Arthur, 108
Bates, Henry Walter, 8, 25, 33, chap. 5 passim; background and early life, 118–20, 212n.8; Batesian mimicry, 117–18; Naturalist on the River Amazons, The, 25, 116, 121–22, 124–26, 132–33, 136, 138–39, 141, 144–46, 179, 241n.30
Belém, 14, 19, 42, 112, 154, 158, 191, 196, 263n.31
Benjamin, Walter, 3, 10, 207 nn. 2 and 5, 209n.9, 220n.4
Berger, John, 34
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
Ray, John, 131
Redenção, 151–52
regatões, 140, 204, 221n.7
Reis, Arthur Cézar Ferreira, 51–52
replication, experimental, 169, 255n.47, 256n.48
Richards, Paul W., 258n.64
Rival, Laura, 38
rivers, Amazonian, 23–24, 181–82; Amazon, 73, 75–76, 114; Orinoco, 75–76, 83–85, 102–5; Rio Araguarí, 112; Rio Guariba, 57–61; Rio Mojú, 17, 22; Rio Negro, 24, 34; Rio Oiapoque, 110; Rio Preto, 60–61; Rio Tapajós, 24–26, 33, 138–39; Rio Tocantins, 14–15, 126; Rio Xingu, 21, 112. See also Arapiuns Basin; landscape, anthropogenic
roads and paths: estradas, 24–26; highways, 154–56, 185; madeiravia, 40–41; varadouros, 214n.43
Roosevelt, Anna, 37
Rowse, A. L., 88
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, 128, 133
Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 116, 129, 133, 146–48
Rural Workers’ Union of Amapá, 54, 67, 190
Ryan, Michael T., 232n.73
Santarém, 24
San Thomé, 93
Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro, 86
Schmink, Marianne, 262n.24
science, British, 116–17, 133, 137, 238n.9; as avenue of social mobility, 118–21; early modern, 9, 97–99; professionalization of, 129, 137. See also natural history
scientific practice, 85, chaps. 5 and 6 passim
Sebald, W. G., 208n.6
Sidney, Philip, 106
Sioli, Harald, 26
Smith, David M., 172
Sparrow, Francis, 92–93
specimens, natural history, 98, 134–36, 143–44. See also collections, natural history
Spenser, Edmund, 75, 106
Spix, Johann Baptist von, 143, 249n.100
Spruce, Richard, 139, 243n.45, 248n.87
Spurr, David, 48, 242n.36
SPVEA, 185, 260n.16
Stepan, Nancy Leys, 241n.30
Stevens, Samuel, 128, 133–34, 246n.70
Steward, Julian, 35–36, 48, 152, 174, 229n.39
Stoler, Ann, 208n.8
SUDAM, 260n.16
systematics. See Linnaean taxonomy
Taussig, Michael, 125
Teixeira, Pedro, 112
terra firme, 23, 174
terra preta do índio, 24–25, 32, 37
terra requerida, 64–65, 223n.23
Thompson, E. P., 119–20
Tillyard, E.M.W., 102
Topiawari, 90–93
Treaty of Breda (1667), 236n.142
Treaty of London (1604), 79–80
Trinidad, 88
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 152
UNCED Conference (1992, Rio de Janeiro), 155
Unitarianism, 120
varadores, 32, 214n.43, 215n.45. See also landscape, anthropogenic
Vargas, Getúlio, 260n.16
várzea, 23, 40, 174
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 174
Vološinov, Valentin. See Bakhtin, Mikhail
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 12–15, 116, 118, 120–21, 130, 211n.4, 212n.8, 242n.36, 248n.85; obituary for Bates, 119, 239n.14; Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, 12–15, 121; My Life, 244n.50
Whiddon, Jacob, 87
White, John, 97
Whitehead, Neil L., 225n.6, 235n.124
Wild Coast, 75, 85–87, 112
Williams, Raymond, 54, 60, 106, 221n.12
Williamson, James, 110
Wilson, E. O., 209n.9
Wilson, John, 112
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 181
Wood, Charles H., 262n.24
xenophobia, 221n.7
Yale School of Forestry, 172
Zarin, Daniel, 222n.16
Žižek, Slavoj, 210n.16
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