Sinopse: Anthropologist Márcio Meira Analyzes The Process Of Colonization Of The Amazon Northwest Region Since Its Genesis, Centered On The So-called Aviamiento System, One Of The Structuring Factors Of The Sociology Of This Region. The A Debt-servitude System (aviamiento) Is Characterized By Asymmetric Barter-to-credit Trade, Establishing A Debt Relationship And A Hierarchical Network Of Domination Between Bosses And Customers. Indigenous People Impacted By The Persistence Of This Debt Slavery (or Bonded Labour), Understood As A Colonial Condition, Have Been Able To Work For A Long Time On The Margins Of The Regime Of Violence, Renewing Their Old Fluid And Open Social System. In An Interdisciplinary Methodological Approach To The Colonial Process, This Work Establishes A Dialogue Between History And Memory. Apresentação / José Ribamar Bessa Freire -- Prefacio / Robin M. Wright -- Prólogo. Memórias De Um Percurso -- Introdução -- O Noroeste Amazônico -- O Sistema De Aviamento -- Rio Xié: O Aviamento No Final Do Século Xx -- Vozes Restituídas: Memórias E Histórias Indígenas Do Aviamento -- O Longo Século Xix. A Consolidação Do Sistema De Aviamento, 1798-1950 -- O Muro De Bronzeʺ: O Aviamento E A Resiliência Indígena No Noroeste Amazônico. Márcio Meira. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 337-355).
