Scoping the Amazon

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Image, Icon, and Ethnography

By Stephen Nugent

Summary

Scoping the Amazon explores the complex and often contradictory images of the Amazon Indian, from noble primitive to savage stereotype. Stephen Nugent critically examines the visual portrayals created by early 20th-century anthropologists and contrasts them with popular media representations, revealing the cultural narratives and authority behind these images. This insightful work also situates anthropology as a form of cultural industry, comparing it with other media industries past and present.
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This book is ideal for visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and those interested in popular culture studies, offering enlightening and entertaining perspectives on the portrayal of Amazonian peoples.

Savage cannibal or utopian proto-environmentalist? Nugent examines both popular images of Amazon peoples in film and general books as well as changing anthropological views of the rainforest and its people.

Description

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.

Scoping the Amazon 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598741773

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 260

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Stephen Nugent

About the Author

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.