20.500.12556/DKUM-69962 A life histories approach to gold prospecting and frontier farming in the Brazilian Amazon In contrast to the usual faceless macro-economic and sociological treatment of development cycles in the Amazon, which at best offer generalities about ‘social actors’ labelled ‘peasants’, ‘ranchers’ and ‘trans-national corporations’, who represent the abstract categories of labour and globalised capital, a human face to frontier processes is offered here. The social and economic sustainability of the shifting back and forth from gold prospecting to family farming on the frontier is evaluated through the eyes of those who experienced it so producing an un- romanticised portrait of prospecting in western Pará during the gold rush of 1961-1990 as well as of frontier farming today. The economic origin and past quality of life of those who left local farms or came from the distant rural zones of impoverished Maranhão are compared and contrasted with that of their passage through the degrading living conditions of gold prospecting and finally with their current situation as struggling but independent frontier farmers in Itaituba and Santarém municipalities. Amazon frontier farming gold prospecting quality of life Brazilija Amazonija kmetijstvo zlato zlatokopi kvaliteta življenja družbena slojevitost true true true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Oddelek za geografijo, Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Mariboru Znanstveno delo 2018-03-20 09:58:44 2018-03-20 09:59:35 2022-08-01 18:37:04 2019-10-05 03:12:58 2009 0 0 str. 29-36 št. 2 Letn. 4 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 1854-665X 316.443:338.43(811.3) 229718016 251957760 1854-665X URN:SI:UM:DK:S2PBDGGR Revija_za_geografijo_2009_Hoefle_A_life_histories_approach_to_gold_prospecting_and_frontier_farming_in_the_Brazilian_Amazon.pdf Revija_za_geografijo_2009_Hoefle_A_life_histories_approach_to_gold_prospecting_and_frontier_farming_in_the_Brazilian_Amazon.pdf 1 A6B49AE8FECE8C61D3936D51DE95A4A9 6a761a885ed228f95d7a83345888bb01431e9cd064c7ec36c73e214ddbb0f83e d470e24a-7c0f-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/25097a41-3e6d-49ce-b858-486087c86a38 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=123282 http://www.ff.um.si/zalozba-in-knjigarna/ponudba/zbirke-in-revije/revija-za-geografijo/clanki/stevilka-4-2-2009/042-03_hoefle.pdf 1 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=123283 Filozofska fakulteta Revija za geografijo 0 0 0