The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9781138894037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Stephen L. Nugent

Opis

"Nugent offers the first in-depth historical anthropology of the most widely recognised feature of the Amazonian region - the dramatic rise and fall of the Amazon rubber industry"--

Spis treści

Preface: The Amazon Rubber Boom, Tapping into the Past  1. Requiem for the Amazon Rubber Boom  2. This Substance Called Rubber: Hevea and Its Relations  3. Anthropological Rubber in the Amazon  4. Postcards from El Dorado: an overview of historical accounts of the rubber industry  5. Embedded Tropes and the Shift of Time  6. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part one: Narratives of failure  7. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part two:  Modernity redux, the failure of Fordlândia  8. After the Wild Frontier  9. The Melancholy and the Modern  10. Rubber in London  11. Concluding Comments

O autorze

Stephen L. Nugent is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.