Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture by Joshua A. Bell (Editor), Alison K. Brown (Editor), Robert J. Gordon (Editor) - 2013-06-25

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013-06-25. Hardcover. Like New. 7x0x10. 281 like new pages in like new jacket.

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013-06-25. Hardcover. Like New.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. Small remainder dot to bottom edge of pages, no other markings, otherwise Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, xiv, 261pp, index, B&W photos. This book looks at the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a variety of 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 enchanted popular imagination. The various narratives encoded in the articles, books, films, exhibitions and lecture tours that these expeditions generated fed into pre-existing stereotypes about racial and technological… Read More

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013-06-25. Hardcover. New.

Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, 2013. Hardcover. New. 360 pages. 10.50x7.25x1.00 inches.