03069oam 2200673I 450 991078101150332120230126204048.01-315-42039-21-315-42040-61-315-42041-41-59874-775-410.4324/9781315420417 (CKB)2550000000017924(EBL)677821(OCoLC)647927348(SSID)ssj0000487261(PQKBManifestationID)11325051(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487261(PQKBWorkID)10441907(PQKB)10939249(MiAaPQ)EBC677821(Au-PeEL)EBL677821(CaPaEBR)ebr10386158(OCoLC)956466793(EXLCZ)99255000000001792420180706e20162007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScoping the Amazon image, icon, ethnography /Stephen NugentLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (262 p.)First published 2007 by Left Coast Press.1-59874-177-2 1-59874-176-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.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.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 culIndians of South AmericaAmazon River RegionPublic opinionEuropeansAttitudesIndigenous peoples in popular cultureAmazon River RegionIndigenous peoples in motion picturesStereotypes (Social psychology)Amazon River RegionIndians of South AmericaPublic opinion.EuropeansAttitudes.Indigenous peoples in popular cultureIndigenous peoples in motion pictures.Stereotypes (Social psychology)981/.1Nugent Stephen(Stephen L.),937688MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781011503321Scoping the Amazon3672789UNINA