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Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Richard B. PaceDr. 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


Office Hours:




Spring 2012 Class Schedule:




Publications

Book:

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


Journal Articles:

2009.  "Television's Interpellation:  Heeding, Missing, Ignoring, and Resisting the Call for Pan-National Identity in the Brazilian Amazon."  American Anthropologist.  Forthcoming Sept or Dec.

2006.  "O Abuso Científico do Termo Caboclo?  Dúvidas de Representação e Autoridade."  Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi:  Ciências Humanas.  Vol. 1, No. 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.  Vol. 60:231-259.

1997.  "The Amazon Caboclo, What's in a Name?" in The Luso-Brazilian Review.  Vol. 34, No. 2:81-89.

1995.  "The New Amazons in Amazon Town?  A Case Study of Women's Public Roles in Gurupá, Pará.  Brazil."  The Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 51, No. 3:263-278.

1993.  "First-Time Televiewing in Amazônia:  Television Acculturation in Gurupá, Brazil."  Ethnology. Vol. XXXII, No. 2:187-205.

1992.  "Social Conflict and Political Mobilization in the Brazilian Amazon:  A Case Study of  Gurupá."  American Ethnologist.  Vol. 19, No. 4(November):710-732.


Chapters in edited volumes:

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.

1990.  "The New Catholic Church in Itá:  A Case Study of Liberation Theology, Ecclesiastical Base Communities, and Social Conflict in the Amazonian Community of Brazil."  In Looking Through the Kaleidoscope:  Essay in Honor of Charles Wagley.  Florida Journal of Anthropology, Special Publication, No. 6:11-17.