| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- 1. Photographs are to think with: Historicizing anthropology -- Frustrated radical? -- From natural science to history -- Photography and anthropological fieldwork in the 1920s and 1930s -- 2. Survivals, surveys, and struggles: First fieldwork -- A life of adventure -- Survival of a sun god? -- Battles with Malinowski -- Surveying for Seligman -- 3. Visuality and textuality: Encountering Zande ritual -- Ritual sequence, photographic seriality |
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Inscription and ethnography -- Textual and visual excess -- 4. Double alienation: Fieldwork and photography between two worlds -- Situating the field -- Zande self-presentation -- 'Nuerosis' -- Context as author -- The relational image -- A double alienation -- 5. Image, archive, and monograph: Dangerous liaisons -- Modern anthropology's Las Meninas -- Reading The Nuer visually -- Reading the monograph -- Reading the archive -- 6. Akobo Realism: Conversations with the Anuak -- Heading for the Galla -- One king or many? -- Trekking the Akobo |
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7. The participant-photographer: Encountering Nuer ritual -- Photography and participant-observation -- Photographing ritual -- Film 7 -- Film 9 -- Film 4 -- Seriality and partiality in the archive -- The sight of the field in the archive -- 8. The poet, the missionary, and the sacred spears -- The poet and the missionary -- Of sacred spears and their custodians -- Index |
| Summary |
This is a highly illustrated text exploring the work of Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, widely considered the most influential British anthropologist of the 20th century, through the lens of his fieldwork photography. It offers new insight and a major reinterpreatation of Evans-Pritchard's theoretical contributions to the discipline |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 11, 2020) |
| Subject |
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973.
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| SUBJECT |
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973 fast |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Methodology -- History -- 20th century
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- History -- 20th century
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork
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Anthropology -- Methodology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191850707 |
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0191850705 |
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