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  • AMAZONIAN CABOCLO SOCIETY
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    AMAZONIAN CABOCLO SOCIETY
    STEPHEN NUGENT
    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 'invis...

    $1,120.00

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  • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMAZON RUBBER INDUSTRY
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    THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMAZON RUBBER INDUSTRY
    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 transforma...

    $1,160.00

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  • SCOPING THE AMAZON
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    SCOPING THE AMAZON
    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 im...

    $1,240.00

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  • ELITE CULTURES
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    ELITE CULTURES
    NUGENT, STEPHEN / SHORE, CRIS
    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 an...

    $1,380.00

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