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In Amazonia, a holistic anthropological trip through the recent history of a river community.

Mr. Raffles's most interesting point concerns the scientist/ subject relationship: one gathers a few facts to take back for synthesis and a presentation about the effect of people on Amazonian hydro features, while the other lives with the river and makes subtle distinctions about the natural and human politics occurring there.

So, Raffles proceeds to tell the story of a tributary by telling the historical and personal stories of the people there, by way of explaining the human/ nature relationship. All this with a healthy dose of sociological theoretical jargon and environmental philosophy.