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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.Description: 260 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 981/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • F2519.1.A6 N84 2007eb
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

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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