[PDF.42ov] Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, and Ethnography

Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, and Ethnography

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 | #2837241 in Books |  Left Coast Press, Inc. |  2007-11-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.93 | File type: PDF | 260 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Repositioning Our Understanding of Indigenous Peoples of the |By Peter N. Jones|Since the founding of anthropology as a social science in the late 19th century up through the end of the 20th century, the field has been one of the primary brokers of culture and the industry that surrounds it. Beginning with the founding "fathers" of the field and their desire to define culture a|From the Inside Flap|Savage cannibal or utopian proto-environmentalist? Nugent examines both popular images of peoples in film and general books as well as changing anthropological views of the rainforest and its people.|About the A

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 w...

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