1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910422958203321

Autore

Istituto internazionale di storia economica Francesco Datini

Titolo

I prezzi delle cose nell'età preindustriale = The prices of things in pre-industrial times : selezione di ricerche / Fondazione Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini, Prato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Firenze University Press, 2017

ISBN

978-88-6453-491-6

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 423 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Fondazione Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini, Prato. Serie 2, Atti delle settimane di studio e altri convegni ; 48

Disciplina

338.5209

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

338.5 DATINI SS 48 $b BRAU 2020/910

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Altra edizione: ISBN 9788864534923 (digitale - http://digital.casalini.it/9788864534923)



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781011503321

Autore

Nugent Stephen (Stephen L.)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42039-2

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

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