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Book Reviews

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

by Stephen L. Nugent, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, 208 pp., ISBN: 978-13-1517-997-1

Pages 224-227 | Published online: 18 Dec 2019
 

Notes

1. Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York: Penguin, 1986).

2. Stephen L. Nugent, Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 1993).

3. Stephen L. Nugent, Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, Ethnography (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007) and “The Exotic Albatross: Exotic Indians, Exotic Theory,” in Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology, ed. Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (Oxford: Berghahn, 2016).

4. Michael Heckenberger, The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000–2000 (London: Psychology Press, 2005); and Anna Roosevelt ed., Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives (Tucson: University of Arizona Press). Aside from regarding Betty J. Meggers, Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise (Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1971), in the same vein Nugent is highly critical of Charles Wagley, Amazon Town (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 [1953]), Walt Whitman Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960) and Claude Lévi- Strauss, A World on the Wane (London: Hutchinson, 1961).

5. Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).

6. Anne-Christine Taylor, “God-Wealth: The Achuar and the Missions,” in Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador, ed. Norman E. Whitten (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 645–76, 648.

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