Stephen Nugent: 2 books
Scoping the Amazon
Image, Icon, and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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...
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry
An Historical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
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...