Scoping the Amazon : Image, Icon, and Ethnography
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| Title: | Scoping the Amazon : Image, Icon, and Ethnography |
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| Description: | 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 culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading. |
| Authors: | Stephen Nugent |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Indians of South America--Public opinion.--Ama, Europeans--Attitudes, Indigenous peoples in popular culture--Amazon Ri, Indigenous peoples in motion pictures, Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Amazon River Re |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading. |
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| ISBN: | 9781598741773 9781598741766 9781598747751 9781315420394 9781315420400 9781611326116 9781315420417 |
