Scoping the Amazon [electronic resource] : image, icon, ethnography / Stephen Nugent.
2007
F2519.1.A6 N84 2007eb
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Scoping the Amazon [electronic resource] : image, icon, ethnography / Stephen Nugent.
Author
Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)
ISBN
9781598741766 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781598741773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598741764 (hardback : alk. paper)
1598741772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781598741773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598741764 (hardback : alk. paper)
1598741772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.
Language
English
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260 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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F2519.1.A6 N84 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
981/.1
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.