This week we're doing a whole lot of hiking with The Lost City of Z! Join us for a discussion of Nina Fawcett, colonialism, the rubber trade, cannibalism, and more!

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Featurette: https://youtu.be/l_hU-6psK04 Fox interview w/actors: https://youtu.be/J8_ZozoEo2Q Lauren Turner, "Sienna Miller on why her new role is not 'just a wife,' BBC 25 March 2017 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39371863 Katie Berrington, "Sienna's Latest Role: "She Wasn't Just A Wife," Vogue UK 27 March 2017, https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/sienna-miller-on-new-role-not-being-just-a-wife IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/ Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lost_city_of_z wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film) John Hemming, "Lost city of fantasy," The Spectator 1 April 2017, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lost-city-of-fantasy .

Nina Fawcett: Bio British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG123259 "United Kingdom: Long lost letter reveals new details of wifes search for missing explorer" Mena Report 9 Nov. 2016 https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A469783244/EAIM?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=EAIM&xid=3babb494 "Letter reveals how missing explorer's wife turned to clairvoyant for help," Belfast Telegraph 7 November 2016 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/letter-reveals-how-missing-explorers-wife-turned-to-clairvoyant-for-help-35194673.html George K. Behlmer, "Grave Doubts: Victorian Medicine, Moral Panic, and the Signs of Death," Journal of British Studies 42:2 (April 2003): 206-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345608 Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). Lionel Gossman, "Michelet and Natural History: The Alibi of Nature," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145:3 (September 2001): 283-333. David Grann, "The Lost City of Z," The New Yorker (19 September 2005), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/the-lost-city-of-z and The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Doubleday, 2009). Bruna Franchetto, "Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil)" in Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America eds. Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course (University of Nebraska Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d9nkk2.15

Rubber: John Tully, The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (NYU Press, 2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfjqp.8 Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (Duke University Press, 2006). Gary Van Valen, Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842-1932 (University of Arizona Press, 2013).

City of Z/Kuhikugu: Douglas Preston, "An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rainforest," New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest Michael J Heckenberger, "Lost Cities of the Amazon," Scientific American 301, 4 (2009) Michael J Heckenberger et al, "Village Size and Permanence in Amazonia: Two Archaeological Examples from Brazil," Latin American Antiquity 10, 4 (1999) Anna T. Browne-Ribeiro et al, "Results from Pilot Archaeological Fieldwork at the Carrezado Site, Lower Xingu, Amazonia," Latin American Antiquity 27, 3 (2016)

Cannibalism: Beth Conklin, "Consuming Images: Representations of Cannibalism on the Amazonian Frontier," Anthropological Quarterly 70, 2 (1997) Beth Conklin, "'Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom': Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society," American Ethnologist 22, 1 (1995) Shirley Lindenbaum, "Thinking About Cannibalism," Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004)