"Tropical Deforestation and Indigenous Resistance in South America since 1500"
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Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History Seminar.
Freg Stokes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology.
Commentator: Tomás Bartoletti, Senior Lecturer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Indigenous Guaraní-speaking societies in the Atlantic Forest of South America have influenced both regional environmental history and the global history of capitalism. This seminar paper evaluates how Guaraní labor in the coastal, ‘Portuguese’ section of the forest, and Guaraní resistance in the inland, ‘Spanish’ section of the forest, have shaped regional deforestation patterns from 1500 until the present day.
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