Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live. Developing new analytical approaches toward ways of seeing is a key challenge facing those working across a wide range of disciplines. How can visuality be understood on its own terms rather than by means of established textual frameworks? Visualizing Anthropology takes up this challenge. Bringing together a range of perspectives anchored in practice, the book maps experiments in the forms and techniques of visual enquiry. The origins of this collection lie in visual anthropology. Although the field has greatly expanded and diversified, many of the key debates continue to be focused around the textual concerns of the mainstream discipline. In seeking to establish a more genuinely visual anthropology, the editors have sought to forge links with other kinds of image-based projects. Ethnography is the shared space of practice. Understood not as a specialized method but as cultural critique, the book explores new collaborative possibilities linked to image-based work.
Author(s): Amanda Ravetz, Anna Grimshaw
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 175
Tags: Антропология;Социальная (культурная) антропология;Визуальная антропология;
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Eyeing the Field: New Horizons for Visual Anthropology......Page 24
Reflections of a Neophyte: A University Versus a Broadcast Context......Page 38
Seeing is Believing: An Ethnographer’s Encounter with Television Documentary Production......Page 49
Cameras at the Addy: Speaking in Pictures with City Kids......Page 62
News from Home: Reflections on Fine Art and Anthropology......Page 76
Give Me a Call......Page 88
The Experience and the Object: Making a Documentary Video Installation......Page 97
Setting Up Roots, or the Anthropologist on the Set: Observations on the Shooting of a Cinema Movie in a Mapuche Reservation, Argentina......Page 107
The Filmed Return of the Natives – to a Colonizing Territory of Terror......Page 128
Becoming an Artist-Ethnographer......Page 140
Creation and I, Me and My Work: A Personal Account of Relations Between Film, Film-maker and Teaching......Page 150
Making Nothing Happen: Notes for a Seminar......Page 159
