Visualizing anthropology

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Visualizing anthropology

edited by Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz

Intellect, 2005

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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  • Introduction : visualizing anthropology / Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz
  • Eyeing the field : new horizons for visual anthropology / Anna Grimshaw
  • Reflections of a neophyte : a university versus a broadcast context / Julie Moggan
  • Seeing is believing : an ethnographer's encounter with television documentary / Rachel Robertson
  • Cameras at the Addy : speaking in pictures with city kids / Margeret Loescher
  • News from home : reflections on fine art and anthropology / Amanda Ravetz
  • Give me a call / Elspeth Owen
  • The experience and the object : making a documentary video installation / Inga Burrows
  • Setting up roots, or, The anthropologist on the set : observations on the shooting of a cinema movie in a Mapuche Reservation, Argentina / Arnd Schneider
  • The filmed return of the natives -- to a colonizing territory of terror / Judith Okely
  • Becoming an artist-ethnographer / Roanna Heller
  • Creation and I, me and my work : a personal account of relations between film, film-maker and teaching / Erik Knudsen
  • Making nothing happen : notes for a seminar / Pavel Büchler

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Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live. Developing new analytical approaches toward ways of seeing is a key challenge facing those working across a wide range of disciplines. How can visuality be understood on its own terms rather than by means of established textual frameworks? Visualizing Anthropology takes up this challenge. Bringing together a range of perspectives anchored in practice, the book maps experiments in the forms and techniques of visual enquiry. The origins of this collection lie in visual anthropology. Although the field has greatly expanded and diversified, many of the key debates continue to be focused around the textual concerns of the mainstream discipline. In seeking to establish a more genuinely visual anthropology, the editors have sought to forge links with other kinds of image-based projects. Ethnography is the shared space of practice. Understood not as a specialized method but as cultural critique, the book explores new collaborative possibilities linked to image-based work.

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