| Description |
xix, 473 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Ethnographic and the Ipsographic. The Camera People / Eliot Weinberger. Whose Story Is It? / David MacDougall. The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage / George E. Marcus. Trobrianders on Camera and Off / Annette B. Weiner. The Ethnographer's Tale / Bill Nichols. Artuad, Rouch, and the Cinema of Cruelty / Paul Stoller. Cannibal Tours / Dean MacCannell. Trinh T. Minh-ha Observed: Anthropology and Others / Henrietta L. Moore. Marketing Alterity / Rachel Moore -- 2. Surrealism, Vision, and Cultural Criticism. Between the Street and the Salon: The Dilemma of Surrealist Politics in the 1930s / Susan Rubin Suleiman. Exquisite Corpses / Hal Foster. The Disenchantment of the Eye: Surrealism and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism / Martin Jay -- 3. Modernity's Mediations: The Scopic and the Haptic. Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds / Michael Taussig. The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange, and Modernity / C. Nadia Seremetakis. Paranoiac Space / Victor Burgin. One-Legged Gender / Marilyn Strathern. The Hand / Ludmilla Jordanova. Films of Memory / David MacDougall. Manufacturing Vision / David Tomas. Post-Bourgeois Tatto: Reflections on Skin Writing in Late Capitalist Societies / Marc Blanchard. Family Matters: Postfeminist Constructions of a Contested Site / Elizabeth G. Traube. Remembering the Revolution, Forgetting the Revolution, Forgetting the Empire: Notes after the French Bicentennial / Peter Redfield. Simulations of Postmodernity: Images of Technology in African Tourist and Popular Art / Bennetta Jules-Rosette. The Photograph as a Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic / Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins. BBC Domesday: The Social Construction of Britain on Videodisc / Alan Macfarlane. Future Travel / Christopher Pinney -- 4. Visualizing Theory: "In Dialogue" Speaking Nearby / Nancy N. Chen and Trinh T. Minh-ha. Visualizing Theory / Homi Bhabha and Victor Burin |
| Analysis |
Anthropology |
| Notes |
Essays reprinted from Visual anthropology review |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Visual anthropology.
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| Author |
Castaing-Taylor, Lucien.
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| LC no. |
93031997 |
| ISBN |
0415908426 (acid-free paper) |
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0415908434 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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