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Title Made to be seen : perspectives on the history of visual anthropology / edited by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (419 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Made to be seen: historical perspectives on visual anthropology / Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby -- Skilled visions: toward an ecology of visual inscriptions / Cristina Grasseni -- Material visions: dress and textiles / Sandra Dudley -- Visual anthropology and the built environment: interpenetrations of the visible and the invisible / Roxana Waterson -- Unfinished dialogues: notes toward an alternative history of art and anthropology / Arnd Schneider -- Theorizing "the body" in visual culture / Brenda Farnell -- Tracing photography / Elizabeth Edwards -- Ethnographic film / Matthew Durington and Jay Ruby -- Digital visual anthropology: potentials and challenges / Sarah Pink -- Native intelligence: a short history of debates on indigenous media and ethnographic film / Faye Ginsburg -- Productive dissonance and sensuous image-making: visual anthropology and experimental film / Kathryn Ramey -- Anthropology and the problem of audience reception / Stephen Putnam Hughes -- Hindsight/postscript: ethical and epistemic reflections on/of anthropological vision / Michael Herzfeld
Summary "Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to Made to be Seen reflect on the role of the visual in all areas of life. Different essays critically examine a range of topics: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, the body as a cultural phenomenon, the relationship between experimental and ethnographic film, and more"--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-400) and index
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Subject Visual anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Visual anthropology
Ethnologie
Anthropologie
Visuelle Medien
Film
Fotografie
Visuele middelen.
Antropologie.
Visuelle Ethnologie.
Visuell antropologi -- historia.
Form Electronic book
Author Banks, Marcus.
Ruby, Jay.
LC no. 2010048748
ISBN 9780226036632
0226036634
1283362481
9781283362481