W&L Library Resources
We have some 1600 instances of 'Brazil' as a subject heading, and about 1200 titles with the keyword 'Brazil' somewhere in the record. We need to analyze what we have, and somehow to ascertain what we should have to augment this collection, and set about ordering the glaring omissions. How useful is D'Andrea's Bibliography of Brasil? Consider alsoBrazilian government sources:
books on social and economic issues of settlement and colonization (Bradly Alicea) (see his Annotated Amazonia)Handbook of Latin American Studies is an essential tool...
There are all sorts of specialized bibliographies, like Carnival in Brazil: Selected Sources
JSTOR has a Latin American Studies journal collection, including Latin American Research Review 1965-1997 (1998- in paper, in Leyburn)
IBGE Brazil and Cidades (nice interface --for Rondonia, 52 municipios... and downloads
Maps and spatial data:
Brazil: Statewide Data from DCW via gisdatadepot.comanother source via UPenn
(For no particular reason I started with Rondonia, adding details from the geocomm.com DCW layers, and added Amazonas. At Q:\brazil\brazilesri.apr)
I went in search of some material on population of towns:
Post-Frontier Towns of Rondônia, Brazil (James Hayes-Bohanan)
World Gazetteer totals for Rondonia's largest 10 towns, 1996 and 2000 (and for Brazil by state)
GRID Arendal Rondonia deforestation
ditto, deforestation in AmazonasAmazonas-Rondonia map (Q:\brazil\brazilesri.apr)
Other miscellaneous items, to eventually explore and classify:
Financial Flows and Drug Trafficking in the Amazon Basin (Lia Osório Machado)
ethnologue.com map and SIL Brasil Web site
31 Oct
a collection of stuff from a day of hunting for some way to get municipio shapefiles for Brazil
Also see q:/brazil/rondonbib.mdb for steps toward the map retrieval of bibliography
and q:\brazil\rondonia.apr
Several books that look pretty essential:
TITLE The Brazil reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Robert
M. Levine and John J. Crocitti.
IMPRINT Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
CALL NO. F2521 .B768 1999.
AUTHOR Meggers, Betty Jane.
TITLE Amazonia: man and culture in a counterfeit paradise
IMPRINT Chicago, Aldine, Atherton [1971]
CALL NO. F2519.1.A6 M35.
AUTHOR Treece, Dave.
TITLE Exiles, allies, rebels : Brazil's indianist movement, indigenist
politics, and the imperial nation-state / David Treece.
IMPRINT Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
CALL NO. F2519.3.P58 T73 2000.
TITLE Indigenous peoples and the future of Amazonia : an ecological
anthropology of an endangered world / edited by Leslie E. Sponsel.
IMPRINT Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1995.
CALL NO. GF532.A4 I53 1995.
AUTHOR Schmink, Marianne.
TITLE Contested frontiers in Amazonia
IMPRINT New York : Columbia University Press, 1992.
CALL NO. GF532.A4 S36 1992.
AUTHOR Moran, Emilio F.
TITLE Developing the Amazon / Emilio F. Moran.
IMPRINT Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1981.
CALL NO. GF532.B7 M67.
AUTHOR Bunker, Stephen G., 1944-
TITLE Underdeveloping the Amazon : extraction, unequal exchange, and
the failure of the modern state / Stephen G. Bunker.
IMPRINT Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1985.
CALL NO. HC188.A5 B86 1985.
6 Nov
I should have reconnected to Amazon Mining Database stuff I did last winter and spring... which is the Eyes of the Hippopotamus if there ever were such. One of the links therein is to an article in Science: The Future of the Brazilian Amazon (19 Jan 2001) and Supplementary Material.
Serviço Brasileiro de Justiça e Paz (in English)
Brazil sells eight concessions to build and operate hydroelectric plants (Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, July 2001)
7 Nov
gets municipio maps
MONITORAMENTO DA FLORESTA AMAZÔNICA
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz article
8 Nov
Pitinga tin mine
Mining and the Environment: Case Studies from the Americas edited by Alyson Warhurst --see Environmental Issues in Brazilian Tin Production (Teresinha Andrade)
12 Nov
Woods Hole Conservation GIS and datasets
GEO-SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRAZIL : SOME KEYNOTES
13 Nov
metadata for Brazilian Vegetation (which is in the /miley2/brazil/ folder)
Finding the meanings of the codes has been a problem. EITEN, G. BRASILIA 1a. EDICAO CLASSIFICACAO DA VEGETACAO DO BRASIL ED. CNPQ 1983 may be the solution; it's an IBGE map (Fundacao Instituto Brasileriro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE). (1993) Mapa de Vegetacao do Brasil. 1:5,000,000, (polyconic projection). IBAMA.) The Skole and Tucker article from Science 1993 (Tropical Deforestation and Habitat Fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite Data from 1978 to 1988) refers to the map.15 Nov:
Amazonia from space! (LANDSAT images used by PRODES (the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Survey Project) in 1991)
