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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Recreating first contact
    sub title: expeditions, anthropology, and popular culture
  name:
    name part: Bell, Joshua A. (Joshua Alexander)
    name part: 1973-
  name:
    name part: Brown, Alison K. (Alison Kay)
    name part: 1971-
  name:
    name part: Gordon, Robert J.
    name part: 1947-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Recreating First Contact explores the proliferation of adventure travel that emerged during the early twentieth century plus the themes legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During that time, new transport and recording technologies, particularly airplanes, automobiles and small portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were used by many expeditions to document the last untouched places of the globe and bring them home to eager audiences. These expeditions were frequently presented as first contact encounters, and they enchanted popular imagination. The various narratives in the articles, books, films, exhibitions and lecture tours that the expeditions generated fed into pre-existing stereotypes about racial and technological difference, and helped to create them anew in popular culture. Through review of several expeditions and their popular wakes, these essays trace complex but obscured relationships between anthropology, adventure travel, and cinematic imagination that the 1920s and 1930s engendered and how their myths have endured. The book further explores the effects, both positive and negative, of such expeditions on the discipline of anthropology itself. In doing so, however, this volume examines these impacts from a variety of national perspectives, and thus through these different vantage points creates a more nuanced perspective on how expeditions were at once a global phenomenon but also culturally ordered.
  note: edited by Joshua A. Bell, Alison K. Brown, and Robert J. Gordon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnological expeditions
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Adventure and adventurers
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Travelers
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Visual anthropology
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Technology
    topic: Anthropological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology in popular culture
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures in ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnographic films
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Cultural
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Expeditions & Discoveries
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS
    topic: Film & Video
    topic: History & Criticism
  classification: GN345 .R43 2013
  classification: 306.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
  identifier: 9781935623144 (hardback)
  identifier: 1935623141 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013000960
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130228
    record change date: 20130805125401.0
    record identifier: in00003292962