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Rethinking visual anthropology / edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c1997.Description: x, 306 p : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300066910
  • 9780300078541
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Contents:
Introduction / H. Morphy and M. Banks; The eye in the door: anthropology, film and the exploration of interior space / Anna Grimshaw; Beyond the boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography and anthropology / E. Edwards; First exits from observational realism: narrative experiments in recent ethnographic films / P. Loizos; Burlesquing knowledge: Japanese quiz shows and models of knowledge / D.P. Martínez; Balinese on television: representation and response / F. Hughes-Freeland; Computer software as a medium: textuality, orality and sociality in an artificial intelligence research culture / G. Born; To see or not to see: looking as an object of exchange in the New Guinea Highlands / G. Gillison; A body painting in translation / F. Dussart; Displacing the visual: of Trobriand axe-blades and ambiguity*in cultural practice / D. Battaglia; Representing the bodies of the Jains / M. Banks; Pine, ponds and pebbles: garden and visual culture / J. Hendry; Collectivity and nationality in the anthropology of art / N. Thomas; The visual in anthropology / D. MacDougall.
Summary: This text brings together a collection of essays by leading anthropologists, covering an entire range of visual representation and including discussions on the anthropology of art, the study of landscape, and the history of anthropology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / H. Morphy and M. Banks; The eye in the door: anthropology, film and the exploration of interior space / Anna Grimshaw; Beyond the boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography and anthropology / E. Edwards; First exits from observational realism: narrative experiments in recent ethnographic films / P. Loizos; Burlesquing knowledge: Japanese quiz shows and models of knowledge / D.P. Martínez; Balinese on television: representation and response / F. Hughes-Freeland; Computer software as a medium: textuality, orality and sociality in an artificial intelligence research culture / G. Born; To see or not to see: looking as an object of exchange in the New Guinea Highlands / G. Gillison; A body painting in translation / F. Dussart; Displacing the visual: of Trobriand axe-blades and ambiguity*in cultural practice / D. Battaglia; Representing the bodies of the Jains / M. Banks; Pine, ponds and pebbles: garden and visual culture / J. Hendry; Collectivity and nationality in the anthropology of art / N. Thomas; The visual in anthropology / D. MacDougall.

This text brings together a collection of essays by leading anthropologists, covering an entire range of visual representation and including discussions on the anthropology of art, the study of landscape, and the history of anthropology.