附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
Part 1: The context of change -- The military regime and Agrarian policy -- Part 2: Six cases -- Arame: the town names for barbed wire -- São Luiś: the great aluminum disaster -- Santa Rita: where the Buffalo roamed -- Northern Tocantins: blood in the parrot's beak -- Bio Maria: tragedy and hope in the Land of Canaan -- Bye-bye Brazil: along the Transamozonic highway reflections on the case studies -- Part 3: Analysis -- Help and hindrance: the institutional church -- Base communities: link between religion and Agrarian activism -- CEBs, rural unions, and the struggle for land -- Daughters of Judith: women in the land struggle -- Part 4: Conclusion -- Beyond the Amazon: religion and social change -- Appendix: Gaining access and gathering data.
摘要:Using information gathered from more than one hundred interviews with farmers, activists, and church people in northern Brazil, the author shows how the present conflicts over land in the Amazon, as well as the destruction of the rainforest, are rooted in specific policies of the Military Government that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985, and how the effects of those policies continue to be felt. Presented here are six present-day case studies that not only give evidence of the direct links between peasant farmers' participation in grassroots church groups and their activism for land reform, but also, through rich local detail and quotes from the interviews, give a human face to sociological data. -- Provided by publisher.
