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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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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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