Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Richard B. Pace Dr. Pace
Professor
Ph.D., 1987
University of Florida



Office: TODD 321
Phone: (615)904-8058
Email: Richard.Pace@mtsu.edu


Areas of interest:
Political Ecology, Media Anthropology,
Brazilian Amazon


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Publications

2013    Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Pará. Austin:  University of Texas Press.    Pace, Richard and Brian Hinote.

2012   Through Kayapó Cameras: Report from the Field. American Anthropology Newsletter 53(4):18-19. Shepard, Glenn and Richard Pace.

2009    Television's Interpellation: Heeding, Missing, Ignoring, and Resisting the Call for Pan-National Identity in the Brazilian Amazon. American Anthropologist 111(4):407-   419.

2006    O Abuso Científico do Termo Caboclo? Dúvidas de Representação e Autoridade."  Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas. 1(3):79-92.

2004    Failed Guardianship or Failed Metaphors in the Brazilian Amazon? Problems with  'Imagined Eco-Communities' and Other Metaphors and Models for the Amazon Peasantries. The Journal of Anthropological Research. 60:231-259.

1998    The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá Revisited. Boulder CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

1997    The Amazon Caboclo, What's in a Name? The Luso-Brazilian Review 34 (2): 81-89.

1996    First-Time Televiewing in Amazônia: Television Acculturation in Gurupá, Brazil.  Reprinted in Podolefsky and Brown Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, third edition. Mayfield Publishers, Pp. 66-75.

1996    Review of David J. Hess' Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

1995    The New Amazons in Amazon Town? A Case Study of Women's Public Roles in Gurupá, Pará. Brazil. The Journal of Anthropological Research 51(3):263-278.

1994    Review of Leo A. Despres' Manaus: Social Life and Work in Brazil's Free Trade Zone.  American Ethnologist 21(4):1094-95.1994    Gender Roles, Public Occupations, and the New Amazons-Part 1. Intercambio Internacional Vol. XII (2):4-5.

1994    Gender Roles, Public Occupations, and the New Amazons-Part 2. Intercambio Internacional Vol. XIII (1): 2-3.  

1993    First-Time Televiewing in Amazônia: Television Acculturation in Gurupá, Brazil.  Ethnology Vol. XXXII (2):187-205.

1992    Social Conflict and Political Mobilization in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study of Gurupá. American Ethnologist 19 (4):710-732.

1992    Review of Ronald Chilcote's Power and the Ruling Classes in Northeast Brazil: Juazeiro and Petrolina in Transition. American Ethnologist 19 (3):631-31.

1992   Review of Judith Lisansky's Migrants to Amazonian: Spontaneous Colonization in the Brazilian Frontier. American Ethnologist 19 (3):632-3.

1990    The New Catholic Church in Itá: A Case Study of Liberation Theology, Ecclesiastical Base Communities, and Social Conflict in an Amazonian Community of Brazil. In  Looking Through the Kaleidoscope: Essay in Honor of Charles Wagley. Florida Journal of Anthropology, Special Publication, Number 6, pp. 11-17.

1983    The Churches of Poverty. Florida Journal of Anthropology (8)1:44-46.

1983    The Churches of Poverty: Religion's Role in Distributing Aid in a Shantytown of Belém,  Brazil. Latinamericanist (University of Florida) (18) 2: 1-6.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

 2012-2014       National Science Foundation Grant - The Evolution of Media Influence in Brazil:  A Longitudinal and Multi-Sited Study of Electronic and Digital Media. (Co-PI Conrad Kottak).

2011-2012       Fulbright Scholar in Brazil – Federal University of Pará, Belém

2007-2008       Liberal Arts Outstanding Advisor Award

2007-2008       Disabled Student Services Outstanding Mentoring Award

2002-2003       Middle Tennessee State University Outstanding Teacher Award