Rethinking Visual Anthropology

Name: Rethinking Visual Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780300078541

ISBN-10: 0300078544

ISBN-13: 9780300078541

Edition: 1999

Authors: Marcus Banks, Howard Morphy

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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.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.17" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Marcus Banksï¿½is professor of visual anthropology at the University of Oxford and the author ofï¿½Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research.ï¿½



Illustration credits


List of contributors


Acknowledgements



Introduction: rethinking visual anthropology




The eye in the door: anthropology, film and the exploration of interior space




Beyond the boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography and anthropology




First exits from observational realism: narrative experiments in recent ethnographic films




Burlesquing knowledge: Japanese quiz shows and models of knowledge




Balinese on television: representation and response




Computer software as a medium: textuality, orality and sociality in an artificial intelligence research culture




To see or not to see: looking as an object of exchange in the New Guinea Highlands




A body painting in translation




Displacing the visual: of Trobriand axe-blades and ambiguity in cultural practice




Representing the bodies of the Jains




Pine, ponds and pebbles: gardens and visual culture




Collectivity and nationality in the anthropology of art




The visual in anthropology



Index