Scoping the Amazon
Subtitle: image, icon, ethnography
By: Stephen Nugent.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781598741766; 9781598741773
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Anthropology with pictures; title: The head hunter cliché; title: Visualizing social memory : race, class and ethnicity in Amazonia; title: The tropic of Amazon : missing peoples and lingering metaphors; title: The professional literature : 'what I saw in the tropics'; title: Method and data : framing Indians; title: Amazonia on screen : building a lost world; title: Conclusion.