Stephen Nugent
Professor
Anthropology
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Stephen Nugent studied at Reed and at the London School of Economics. His research in Brazil has focused mainly on Brazilian Amazonian societies, especially mestiço peasants of the Lower Amazon, and I have published a number of books on Amazonian themes. He has long been involved in editing the journal Critique of Anthropology and recently published a collection drawn from the journal (Critical Anthropology: foundational works, 2012). His general interests lie in the areas of historical anthropology, cognitive anthropology and anthropology’s combative relationship with science. Since setting up the MA in Visual Anthropology in 1999, he has been involved in various projects related to anthropology and film (including the new BA in Anthropology and Visual Practice and the Centre for Visual Anthropology). Waila (2009) and Sounds Like a Vintage Guitar (2012) are anthropological documentary films he has filmed and directed (in collaboration with Ricardo Leizaola), the former focused on a Tohono O’odham musician from Tucson, the latter an exploration of the business and craft of making and faking historical electric guitars.
Research Interest
He is currently researching and writing about ‘the anthropocene and anthropogenicism’ and ‘Amazonian rubber and commodity chains’.
Publications
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‘Good Risk, Bad Risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia’ Nugent, Stephen. 2000. ‘Good Risk, Bad Risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia’. In: Pat Caplan, ed. Risk Revisited. London: Pluto Press, pp. 226-248. ISBN 978-0745314631
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Some Other Amazonians: perspectives on Modern Amazonians Nugent, Stephen and Harris, Mark. 2004. Some Other Amazonians: perspectives on Modern Amazonians. Institute for the Study of the Americas/Brookings Institute. ISBN 1900039559
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Critical Anthropology: foundational works Nugent, Stephen. 2012. Critical Anthropology: foundational works. Walnut Creek, CA, USA: Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1-61132-178-4
