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Scoping the Amazon [electronic resource] : image, icon, ethnography / Stephen Nugent.

By: Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.).
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007Description: 260 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.Subject(s): 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 RegionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 981/.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: Anthropology with pictures -- The head hunter clich�e -- 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Introduction: Anthropology with pictures -- The head hunter clich�e -- 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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