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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Temas:
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.
Européens > Attitudes.
Autochtones au cinéma.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Europeans > Attitudes
Indians of South America > Public opinion
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
Indigenous peoples in popular culture
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Fremdbild
Amérindien (peuple) > Amazonie.
Amérindien (peuple) > image > Amazonie.
Amazon River Region
Amazonas-Gebiet
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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