Scoping The Amazon - Image, Icon, Ethnography

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Nugent teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is director of the Centre for Visual Anthropology. His longterm interest in Brazilian Amazonia is represented in Big Mouth (1990), Amazonian Caboclo Society (1993), and Some Other Amazonians (2004). He is an editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. Klappentext Savage cannibal or utopian proto-environmentalist? Nugent examines both popular images of Amazon peoples in film and general books as well as changing anthropological views of the rainforest and its people. Zusammenfassung Savage cannibal or utopian proto-environmentalist? Nugent examines both popular images of Amazon peoples in film and general books as well as changing anthropological views of the rainforest and its people. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations, Preface: Talismanic Indians, 1. Introduction: Anthropology with Pictures, 2. The Head Hunter Cliché, 3. Visualizing Social Memory: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in Amazonia, 4. The Tropic of Amazon: Missing Peoples and Lingering Metaphors, 5. The Professional Literature: ‘What I Saw in the Tropics’, 6. Method and Data: Framing Indians, 7. Amazonia on Screen: Building a Lost World, 8. Conclusion, References, Index, About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Nugent
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9781598741773
• ISBN: 978-1-59874-177-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Brasilien, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie