Professor Hoelle Receives Top Book Award

Top award goes to UCSB anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle’s study of ranching and cattle culture in western Amazonia
By Andrea Estrada
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 15:00
Santa Barbara, CA

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The Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) has awarded UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle top honors for his book “Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia” (University of Texas Press, 2015).

- See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016915/best-book#sthash.mW1z8UQi.dpuf

The Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) has awarded UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle top honors for his book “Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia” (University of Texas Press, 2015).

The award, for the best book written in 2015 focusing on Brazilian studies, was announced at LASA’s annual conference earlier this week in New York.

- See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016915/best-book#sthash.mW1z8UQi.dpuf

The Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) has awarded UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle top honors for his book Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia (University of Texas Press, 2015). The award, for the best book written in 2015 focusing on Brazilian studies, was announced at LASA’s annual conference earlier this week in New York.
 
In Rainforest Cowboys, Hoelle, an assistant professor of anthropology, examines the intricate social and cultural forces driving the expansion of cattle raising in the Amazon. Through research featuring a complex and contradictory host of characters he describes as “carnivorous” environmentalists, vilified ranchers and urban caubois (cowboys) with no land or cattle, he illustrates the growing influence of cattle raising and cattle culture in Amazonia.
In “Rainforest Cowboys,” Hoelle, an assistant professor of anthropology, examines the intricate social and cultural forces driving the expansion of cattle raising in the Amazon. Through research featuring a complex and contradictory host of characters he describes as “carnivorous” environmentalists, vilified ranchers and urban caubois (cowboys) with no land or cattle, he illustrates the growing influence of cattle raising and cattle culture in Amazonia. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016915/best-book#sthash.CXn1y4WJ.dpuf

 

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http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015820/rainforest-cowboys
http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/hoelle-rainforest-cowboys
http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016915/best-book
June 1, 2016 - 11:01am