Women, Gender and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Prospects for an Action Oriented Anthropology

摘要: Although missionaries, explorers and naturalists wrote extensively about Amazonian women, especially in regard to their roles agriculture, extractive economies, domestic work (food preparation, house cleaning, child rearing) arts crafts, only recently have Brazilian academicians started think, research or write them. Much of what has been written gender development the Amazon focuses on issues such as women politics, infanticide, victims violence. Progress made developing a literature discussing complex relationships between this part world.