Transcultural montage
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Transcultural montage
Berghahn Books, 2013
- pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors-anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators-explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to restructure our basic understanding of social reality. Furthermore, as George E. Marcus suggests in the afterword, the power of montage that this volume exposes lies in its ability to open the very "combustion chamber" of social theory by juxtaposing one's claims to knowledge with the path undertaken to arrive at those claims.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Montage as an Amplifier of Invisibility
Rane Willerslev and Christian Suhr
Part I: Montage as an Analytic
Chapter 1. Montage and Time: Deleuze, Cinema and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite
Bruce Kapferer
Chapter 2. Temporal Aesthetics: On Deleuzian Montage in Anthropology
Morten Nielsen
Chapter 3. All the Difference in the World: Liminality, Montage and the Re-Invention of Comparative Anthropology
Stuart McLean
Chapter 4. Into the Gloaming: A Montage of the Senses
Andrew Irving
Part II: Montage in Writing
Chapter 5. Being a Montage
Anne Line Dalsgaard
Chapter 6. Smith's Tour Favela
Paul Antick
Chapter 7. Labour days: a non-linear narrative of development
Nina Vohnsen
Chapter 8. Mind the Gap
Karen Lisa Salamon
Part III: Montage in Film
Chapter 9. Women in Cities: Comparative Modernities and Cinematic Space in the 1930s
Catherine Russell
Chapter 10. Radioglaz and the Global City: Possibilities and Constraints of Experimental Montage
Julia T. S. Binter
Chapter 11. Filming in the Light of Memory
Alyssa Grossman
Chapter 12. Montage as analysis in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking: From hunting for plots towards weaving baskets of data
Jakob Kirstein Hogel
Chapter 13. In Defense of Observational Cinema: The Significance of the Bazinian Turn for Ethnographic Filmmaking
Anna Grimshaw
Part IV: Montage in Museum Exhibitions
Chapter 14. Assembling Potentials, Mounting Effects: Ethnographic Exhibitions Beyond Correspondence
Peter Bjerregaard
Chapter 15. Assembling Bodies: Cuts, Clusters and Juxtapositions
Rebecca Empson
Chapter 16. Project Villa Sovietica: Clashing Images, Expectations, and Receptions
Alexandra Schussler and Willem Mes
Afterword: The Traffic in Montage, Then and Now
George E. Marcus
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