Recreating first contact : expeditions, anthropology, and popular culture / edited by Joshua A. Bell, Alison K. Brown, Robert J. Gordon.

"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, automobil...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.
Other Authors: Bell, Joshua A. (Joshua Alexander), 1973-
Brown, Alison K. (Alison Kay), 1971-
Gordon, Robert J., 1947-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
Series:Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Methodology.
Ethnological expeditions > History > 20th century.
Adventure and adventurers > History > 20th century.
Travelers > History > 20th century.
Visual anthropology > History > 20th century.
Technology > Anthropological aspects.
Anthropology in popular culture.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Ethnographic films.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Expeditions & Discoveries.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Ethnologie.
Forschungsreise.
Ethnologischer Film.
Kulturkontakt.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book

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