Autonomous partners: asymmetry and masculinity in Amazonian river trade
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
Abstract:Trade on the Iriri River, in the eastern Brazilian Amazonia, is structured around a credit‐barter system between clients and bosses known as aviamento in Portuguese. Nowadays, bosses are river traders born in the riversides who offer goods on credit to riverside dwellers, who later pay these debts with fish and products they collect from the forest. While the system, found in the Amazon basin since colonial times, is perhaps most known for fostering debt‐peonage during the Rubber Boom (1870‐1912), it can also … Show more
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