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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...

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1. Verfasser: Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung: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 cul.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.
ISBN:9781598747751
1598747754
1598741764
9781598741766

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