Viewpoints : : Visual Anthropologists at Work /

Viewpoints : : Visual Anthropologists at Work / / ed. by Mary Strong, Laena Wilder.

Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adra, Najwa,
Biella, Peter,
Collier, Malcolm,
Flowerday, Julie M.,
Freeman, Richard,
Hermer, Carol,
Mclain, Kimowan,
Ochsenschlager, Edward,
Scherer, Joanna Cohan,
Strong, Mary,
Thompson, Charles,
Wilder, Laena,
Zeller, Anne,
HerausgeberIn:
Strong, Mary,
Wilder, Laena,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (431 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Historical Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section I PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
  • CHAPTER 1 Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience
  • CHAPTER 2 Documentary Photography in the Field
  • CHAPTER 3 Photography and Ethnography
  • Section II IMAGES FROM THE PAST
  • CHAPTER 4 Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care
  • CHAPTER 5 Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories
  • Section III MOVING PICTURES: FILM, VIDEO, AND COMPUTERGENERATED MEDIA
  • CHAPTER 6 Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content
  • CHAPTER 7 Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media
  • CHAPTER 8 Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field
  • Section IV ROADS LESS TRAVELED: UNUSUAL SUBFIELDS
  • Part I UNCOMMON SUBJECT AREAS
  • CHAPTER 9 Envisioning Primates
  • CHAPTER 10 Steps to an Ethnography of Dance
  • CHAPTER 11 Looking for the Past in the Present Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba
  • Part II Media BEYOND CAMERA WORK
  • CHAPTER 12 In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake
  • CHAPTER 13 Art and Mind Working on Murals
  • CHAPTER 14 Art History and Anthropology: LOULY PEACOCK KONZ and JAMES PEACOCK
  • SECTION V Epilogue
  • CHAPTER 15 Elementary Forms of the Digital Media Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology
  • Glossary
  • Author Biographies
  • Index

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