Scoping the Amazon : image, icon, ethnography /

Scoping the Amazon : image, icon, ethnography / Stephen Nugent.

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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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Main Author: Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Public opinion.
Europeans > Attitudes.
Indigenous peoples in popular culture > Amazon River Region.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > Amazon River Region.
Europeans > Attitudes
Indians of South America > Public opinion
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
Indigenous peoples in popular culture
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Amazon River Region

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Call Number: F2519.1.A6 N84 2007eb
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