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The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of cul

Title Scoping the Amazon : image, icon, ethnography / Stephen Nugent.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2016
Notes First published 2007 by Left Coast Press.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
English
Content Introduction: Anthropology with pictures -- The head hunter cliché -- Visualizing social memory : race, class and ethnicity in Amazonia -- The tropic of Amazon : missing peoples and lingering metaphors -- The professional literature : 'what I saw in the tropics' -- Method and data : framing Indians -- Amazonia on screen : building a lost world -- Conclusion.
Extent 1 online resource (262 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010705321405171
MARC RECORDS
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