When we sold God's eye : diamonds, murder and a clash of worlds in the Amazon
Cuadros, Alex2024
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Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, gathering Brazil nuts and açaí berries from centuries-old trees. Then the first highway pierced through. Ranchers, loggers, and prospectors invaded, and they lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to understand their new, capitalist reality, discovering its wonders as well as its horrors. They ended up forging an uneasy symbiosis with their white antagonists - until an extraordinary seam of diamonds erupted in their territory and decades of suppressed trauma burst out in an act of retribution that made headlines across the globe.
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Author:
Cuadros, Alex, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399628891 (hbk)
Dewey class:
305.8009811305.8
Language:
English
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When we sold God's eye : diamonds, murder and a clash of worlds in the Amazon
Subject:
Indigenous peoples -- Amazon River Region -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryIndigenous peoples -- Amazon River Region -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryNatural resources -- Amazon River RegionHuman ecology -- Amazon River Region -- History -- 20th centuryHuman ecology -- Amazon River Region -- History -- 21st centuryAmazon River Region -- Environmental conditions -- 20th centuryAmazon River Region -- Environmental conditions -- 21st centurySocietyTrue crimeSociety & culture: generalIndigenous peoplesDevelopment economics & emerging economies
BRN:
1566056
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