LEADER 03069oam 2200673I 450 001 9910781011503321 005 20230126204048.0 010 $a1-315-42039-2 010 $a1-315-42040-6 010 $a1-315-42041-4 010 $a1-59874-775-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315420417 035 $a(CKB)2550000000017924 035 $a(EBL)677821 035 $a(OCoLC)647927348 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487261 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11325051 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487261 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10441907 035 $a(PQKB)10939249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC677821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL677821 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386158 035 $a(OCoLC)956466793 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000017924 100 $a20180706e20162007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScoping the Amazon $eimage, icon, ethnography /$fStephen Nugent 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2007 by Left Coast Press. 311 $a1-59874-177-2 311 $a1-59874-176-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Anthropology with pictures -- The head hunter cliche? -- 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. 330 $aThe 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 606 $aIndians of South America$zAmazon River Region$xPublic opinion 606 $aEuropeans$xAttitudes 606 $aIndigenous peoples in popular culture$zAmazon River Region 606 $aIndigenous peoples in motion pictures 606 $aStereotypes (Social psychology)$zAmazon River Region 615 0$aIndians of South America$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aEuropeans$xAttitudes. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples in popular culture 615 0$aIndigenous peoples in motion pictures. 615 0$aStereotypes (Social psychology) 676 $a981/.1 700 $aNugent$b Stephen$g(Stephen L.),$0937688 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781011503321 996 $aScoping the Amazon$93672789 997 $aUNINA