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Scoping the Amazon : image, icon, ethnography /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781598747751 1598747754 1598741764 9781598741766 |