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Indigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazonia

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dc.contributor.authorAttridge, Jeffrey Nathanielen
dc.contributor.committeechairAnsell, Aaronen
dc.contributor.committeememberWinling, LaDale C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCline, David P.en
dc.contributor.departmentMaterial Culture and Public Humanitiesen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-19T08:00:24Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-19T08:00:24Zen
dc.date.issued2017-05-18en
dc.description.abstractThis paper seeks to explore the early twentieth century trend of ethnographic adventure filmmaking. A subgenre of the ethnographic film, these works blended ethnographic observations with scripted and staged adventure stories, advancing popular tropes of indigenous first contact and the superiority of Western civilization. Focusing on a 1931 expedition to the Amazon which resulted in the creation of the first sync-sound ethnographic adventure film, titled Matto Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness, I argue that despite flaws in its conception, production, and media coverage, this film serves as an example of how non-academic sources of knowledge production can still create important primary documents for indigenous source communities.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:11856en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/77691en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCultural Anthropologyen
dc.subjectLatin American Studiesen
dc.subjectVisual Anthropologyen
dc.subjectMuseum Studiesen
dc.titleIndigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazoniaen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineMaterial Culture and Public Humanitiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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