1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457310803321

Autore

Nugent Stephen (Stephen L.)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42040-6

1-315-42041-4

1-59874-775-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

981/.1

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Public opinion

Europeans - Attitudes

Indigenous peoples in popular culture - Amazon River Region

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - Amazon River Region

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451916403321

Autore

Gravett Steve

Titolo

Drugs in prison [[electronic resource] ] : a practitioner's guide to penal policy and practice in Her Majesty's Prison Service / / Steve Gravett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, 2000

ISBN

1-283-88019-9

1-4462-6484-X

0-8264-5127-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

365.6

365.66

365/.66

Soggetti

Drug abuse - Treatment - Great Britain

Drug abuse - Great Britain - Prevention

Prisoners - Drug use - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Charts and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; How to Use This Book; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 - Dangerous Drugs; Chapter 2 - Prisons and Drug Misuse; Chapter 3 - Tackling Drugs in Prison; Chapter 4 - Drugs Prevention; Chapter 5 - Mandatory Drug Testing; Chapter 6 - Reducing Demand for Drugs; Chapter 7 - Drug Treatment Programmes; Chapter 8 - What Works?; Chapter 9 - Reviewing Performance; Chapter 10 - Planning for the Future; Glossary; Appendix I - Documents; Appendix II - Addresses; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This guide, incorporating case studies, provides information on drugs themselves as well as the methods prisons use to tackle drug misuse, including reducing the supply and demand for drugs treatment programmes and Throughcare.