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  • The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry

    An Historical Anthropology

    by Stephen Nugent ...
    In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Amazonian Caboclo Society

    An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

    by Stephen Nugent ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little serious attention. This volume aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Scoping the Amazon

    Image, Icon, and Ethnography

    by Stephen Nugent ...
    The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Critical Anthropology

    Foundational Works

    Edited by Stephen Nugent ...
    Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic, political, and social processes. This book brings together some of critical anthropology’s most influential writings, collecting classic articles and spirited rebuttals by major scholars such as Eric ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Elite Cultures

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings. Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, North America and Africa, the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD