Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, and Ethnography - Hardcover

Nugent, Stephen

 
9781598741766: Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, and Ethnography
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1598741764 ISBN 13: 9781598741766
Verlag: Left Coast Press Inc, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen Nugent is professor of anthropology and director of the Centre for Visual Anthropology at the Goldsmith's College, University of London. He has done fieldwork in Brazil since the 1970s. He is author of five books on the Amazon, elite culture, and cultural studies and a member of the Critique of Anthropology editorial collective.


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.

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Verlag
Left Coast Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1598741764
ISBN 13 
9781598741766
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
260
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Routledge
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Gro?ostheim
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