Transcultural Montage / / ed. by Rane Willerslev, Christian Suhr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Antick, Paul,; Binter, Julia T. S.,; Bjerregaard, Peter,; Dalsgaard, Anne Line,; Empson, Rebecca,; Grimshaw, Anna,; Grossman, Alyssa,; Høgel, Jakob Kirstein,; Irving, Andrew,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Marcus, George E,; McLean, Stuart,; Mes, Willem,; Nielsen, Morten,; Russell, Catherine,; Salamon, Karen Lisa,; Schüssler, Alexandra,; Suhr, Christian,; Vohnsen, Nina Holm,; Willerslev, Rane,
• HerausgeberIn: Suhr, Christian,; Willerslev, Rane,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Montage as an Amplifier of Invisibility -- PART I Montage as an Analytic -- CHAPTER 1 Montage and Time Deleuze, Cinema, and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite -- CHAPTER 2 Temporal Aesthetics On Deleuzian Montage in Anthropology -- CHAPTER 3 All the Difference in the World Liminality, Montage, and the Reinvention of Comparative Anthropology -- CHAPTER 4 Into the Gloaming A Montage of the Senses -- PART II Montage in Writing -- CHAPTER 5 Being a Montage -- CHAPTER 6 Smith’s Tour Favela -- CHAPTER 7 Labor Days A Non-Linear Narrative of Development -- CHAPTER 8 Mind the Gap -- PART III Montage in Film -- CHAPTER 9 Women in Cities Comparative Modernities and Cinematic Space in the 1930s -- CHAPTER 10 Radioglaz and the Global City Possibilities and Constraints of Experimental Montage -- CHAPTER 11 Filming in the Light of Memory -- CHAPTER 12 Montage as Analysis in Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking From Hunting for Plots Toward Weaving Baskets of Data -- CHAPTER 13 In Defense of Observational Cinema The Significance of the Bazinian Turn for Ethnographic Filmmaking -- PART IV Montage in Museum Exhibitions -- CHAPTER 14 Assembling Potentials, Mounting Effects Ethnographic Exhibitions Beyond Correspondence -- CHAPTER 15 Assembling Bodies Cuts, Clusters, and Juxtapositions -- CHAPTER 16 Project Villa Sovietica Clashing Images, Expectations, and Receptions -- AFTERWORD The Traffic In Montage, Then and Now -- Contributors -- Index