Scoping the Amazon : image, icon, ethnography / Stephen Nugent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Public opinion.

Indians of South America.

Europeans--Attitudes.

Europeans.

Indigenous peoples in popular culture--Amazon River Region.

Indigenous peoples in popular culture.

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Amazon River Region.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction: Anthropology with pictures

The head hunter cliche

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.

Notes:

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42039-2

1-315-42040-6

1-315-42041-4

1-59874-775-4

9781315420417

OCLC:

647927348