"We are all Garimpeiros:" Settlement and Movement in Communities of the Tapajós Small-Scale Gold Mining Reserve.
Scholars have been carrying out research into the urbanization of the Brazilian Amazon since the 1960s. This article addresses the role of small-scale gold mining in urbanization, by focusing on local processes in two mining settlements in the Tapajós Mineral Province: Creporizão and Creporizinho. T...
| Published in: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 169 - 189 |
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