Stephen Nugent

Broschiertes Buch

Scoping the Amazon

Image, Icon, and Ethnography

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Stephen Nugent teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is director of the Centre for Visual Anthropology. His longterm interest in Brazilian Amazonia is represented in Big Mouth (1990), Amazonian Caboclo Society (1993), and Some Other Amazonians (2004). He is an editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781598741773
• ISBN-10: 1598741772
• Artikelnr.: 23145792