The Amazonian “Other”

Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Cultural Texts

Aleksandra Wierucka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032800233 (ISBN)

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This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts. It analyzes a variety of mediums from novels and films to games and exhibitions, uncovering a distorted image of Indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Euro-American common imagination. The author suggests that these texts rely on a stereotypical vision that was shaped in the first decades of colonization. The chapters consider the formation of the image of Amazonian Indigenous people throughout history and some of the contemporary issues they face, touching on daily life and themes such as shamanism and cannibalism. Together they highlight the misrepresented image of Indigenous groups in the Amazon, who are portrayed as different, even strange, in relation to Western culture. The argument put forward is that both “exotic” and “self-exoticization” rely on the notion of otherness, leading to romanticization, patronization, and caricature. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and comparative literature.

Aleksandra Wierucka is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Gdańsk, Poland.

Introduction

2 Stereotype and exoticization

3 The Amazonian “Other”

4 Tropical forest as a living environment

5 Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2026
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781032800233 / 9781032800233
Zustand	Neuware