Ethnographer's Eye Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

Name: Ethnographer's Eye Ways of Seeing in Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780521774758

ISBN-10: 0521774756

ISBN-13: 9780521774758

Edition: 2001

Authors: Anna Grimshaw

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Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. In the first part of the book she examines contrasting visions at work in the so-called classical British school, reassessing the legacy of Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown through the lens of early modern art and cinema. In the second part of the book, the changing relationship between vision and knowledge is explored…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




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