Goldsmiths - University of London

Professor Stephen Nugent BA PhD

Research interests

I studied at Reed and at the London School of Economics. My research in Brazil has focused mainly on Amazonian societies, especially mestiço peasants of the Lower Amazon. I founded and continue to convene the MA in Visual Anthropology and edit the journal Critique of Anthropology.

Selected publications

Scoping the Amazon: image, icon, ethnography, to be published 1 February by Berg

'Some reflections on anthropological structural Marxism', in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13(2), June 2007

Some Other Amazonians: Perspectives on Modern Amazonia (edited with Mark Harris), 2004.

‘Ecologism as an idiom in Amazonian Anthropology’ in D. Anderson and E. Berglund (eds) Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distibution of Privilege, 2003.

‘ “Clubbed to death”: anthropology, the Yanomami, Science and Ethics’ in P. Caplan (ed.) The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas. London: Routledge. 2003

‘Whither o campesinato? Historical peasantries of Brazilian Amazonia', The Journal of Peasant Studies 29:3/4 2002.

Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives. S. Nugent and C. Shore (eds), 2002.

Where’s the Rabbi? Jewish Communities of the Lower Amazon (ethnographic film), 2001.

Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy, 1993.

‘ Anthropology, Science, Culture: ‘he Yanomai Science Ethics’, in Anthropology Today. June 2001.

‘Good Risk, Bad Risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia’, in Risk Revisited. pp 226-248. Pat Caplan (ed). Pluto Press: London. 2000

‘ Where’s the Rabbi? Jewish Communities in the Lower Amazon’ , an ethnographic film. 2000

‘ Verging on the Marginal: Modern Amazonian Peasantries, in Lilies of the Field: Marginal People who Live for the Moment: Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination. pp 179-195. S Day, M Stewart & E Papataxiarchis (eds) Westview Press: Oxford. 1999

‘ The Co-ordinates of identity in Amazonia: At Play in the Fields of Culture’, in Critique of Anthropology. 17(1): 33-51. 1997

‘ Amazonian Indians and Peasants: Coping in the Age of Development’, in Green Guerrillas. Latin American Books: London. 1996

Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks. Brown Trout Press: San Francisco. 1994

Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay in Invisibility and Peasant Economy. Berg: Oxford. 1993