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Main Author: Nugent, Stephen (Stephen L.)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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