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Author Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)

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

Imprint Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 260 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
Contents Introduction: Anthropology with pictures -- The head hunter cliche -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781598741766 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781598741773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598741764 (hardback : alk. paper)
1598741772 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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