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SCOPING THE AMAZON: IMAGE, ICON, AND ETHNOGRAPHY

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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 does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.

Language: English

Pages: 260

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Left Coast Press

Release: November 15, 2007

ISBN: 1598741772

ISBN 13: 9781598741773

SCOPING THE AMAZON: IMAGE, ICON, AND ETHNOGRAPHY

4/5 ( ratings)

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 does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.

Language: English

Pages: 260

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Left Coast Press

Release: November 15, 2007

ISBN: 1598741772

ISBN 13: 9781598741773

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