From Here to Tierra del Fuego (Transnational Cultural Studies)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252025556
Subjects: Ethnography; History; Media studies; Ethnology And Ethnography; South America - History; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Latin America - South America; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Description and travel; Ethnology; Philosophy; Tierra del Fuego (Argentina an; Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile); Travelers
First sentence: Watching MTV by cable in Ushuaia, the capital of Argentine Tierra del Fuego, is slightly surreal.
Description: "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.