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From Here to Tierra del Fuego [Transnational Cultural Studies] Hardcover - 2000
by Magee, Paul
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- Hardcover
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- Title From Here to Tierra del Fuego [Transnational Cultural Studies]
- Author Magee, Paul
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition F First Edition.
- Condition New
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Urbana, IL
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1051203.22
- ISBN 9780252025556 / 0252025555
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.35 x 6.25 x 0.72 in (23.75 x 15.88 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Philosophy, Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99006942
- Dewey Decimal Code 982.76
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From the jacket flap
Beginning with Darwin, who saw the Fuegian Indians as the world's most primitive inhabitants, Magee interweaves the offhand anecdotes of nineteenth-century colonial adventurers with the primitivist jokes of the travelers he encounters. Reading these self-superior texts through the theories and commentaries of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Michael Taussig, Theodor Adorno, and others, Magee explores the West's obsession with seeing its commodities, from Coke bottles to cakes of Pears' Soap, as objects of native fascination and fetishism.
Bringing the trivial, the offhand, and the anecdotal into the space of politics, Magee demonstrates how links between them and the genocidal colonization of the island implicate even the casual, overtly purposeless tourist in the exploitative structures of global capitalism.
Experimental, entertaining, and occasionally over the top, From Here to Tierra del Fuego maneuvers through a history of racial violence, primitivist fantasy, and throwaway lines to reveal the international tourist industry's role in contemporary world power.