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Author Griffiths, Alison, 1963-

Title Wondrous difference : cinema, anthropology, and turn-of-the-century visual culture / Alison Griffiths
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description xxxiv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Pt. I. Precinema and Ethnographic Representation -- 1. Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator -- 2. Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair -- 3. Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology -- Pt. II. Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture -- 4. The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer -- 5. "The World Within Your Reach": Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation -- Pt. III. First Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers -- 6. Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History -- 7. Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America -- 8. Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-450) and index
Subject Motion pictures in ethnology -- History.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures -- History.
Ethnological museums and collections -- History.
LC no. 2001047227
ISBN 0231116969 alkaline paper
0231116977 paperback alkaline paper