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The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

By Anna Grimshaw

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0521774756, 9780521774758, 0521773105, 9780521773102
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4346743 bytes)
Pages
240\121
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology, attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She argues for the use of vision as a critical tool with which anthropologists can address issues of knowledge and technique. The first part of the book critically examines anthropology's history, focusing on the work of key individuals--Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown--in the context of early modern art and cinema. In the book's second part, Grimshaw considers the anthropological films of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies.

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