Scoping the Amazon image, icon, ethnography - Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.) (Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
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Keywords: 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; Electronic books