Download or read book Amazon Town TV written by Richard Pace and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes possessing TV sets, intent on catching a glimpse of this fascinating novelty. Stoic, mute, and completely absorbed, they stood for hours contemplating every message and image presented. So begins the cultural turning point that is the basis of Amazon Town TV, a rich analysis of Gurupá in the decades during and following the spread of television. Pace worked with sociologist Brian Hinote to explore the sociocultural implications of television’s introduction in this community long isolated by geographic and communication barriers. They explore how viewers change their daily routines to watch the medium; how viewers accept, miss, ignore, negotiate, and resist media messages; and how television’s influence works within the local cultural context to modify social identities, consumption patterns, and worldviews.

Download or read book The Struggle for Amazon Town written by Richard Pace and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his dissertation research on the Amazon region in the 1980s-1990s, Pace (anthropology, Middle Tennessee State U.) revisited the small rural town that served as the site of Charles Wagley's classic study of indigenous campones (small-farm) life: Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the Tropics (1976). Pace records local adaptations to poverty, ideological conflicts, and liberation theology. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development written by Emilio F Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen

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