Stephen Nugent

Scoping the Amazon

Image, Icon, and Ethnography

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Produktbeschreibung

Savage cannibal or utopian proto-environmentalist? Nugent examines both popular images of Amazon peoples in film and general books as well as changing anthropological views of the rainforest and its people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781598741773
• ISBN-10: 1598741772
• Artikelnr.: 23145792

Autorenporträt

Stephen Nugent teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is director of the Centre for Visual Anthropology. His longterm interest in Brazilian Amazonia is represented in Big Mouth (1990), Amazonian Caboclo Society (1993), and Some Other Amazonians (2004). He is an editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface: Talismanic Indians
1. Introduction: Anthropology with Pictures
2. The Head Hunter Cliché
3. Visualizing Social Memory: Race
Class
and Ethnicity in Amazonia
4. The Tropic of Amazon: Missing Peoples and Lingering Metaphors
5. The Professional Literature: 'What I Saw in the Tropics'
6. Method and Data: Framing Indians
7. Amazonia on Screen: Building a Lost World
8. Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author