Rethinking visual anthropology / edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy.
Publication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c1997.Description: x, 306 p : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0300066910
- 9780300078541
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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. MartÃnez; 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.