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The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology / Anna Grimshaw.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: xiii 222 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521773105
  • 9780521773102
  • 0521774756
  • 9780521774758
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.078 21
LOC classification:
  • GN347 .G75 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Pt. I. Visualizing anthropology. 1. The modernist moment and after, 1895-1945. 2. Anxious visions: Rivers, Cubism and anthropological modernism. 3. The innocent eye: Flaherty, Malinowski and the romantic quest. 4. The light of reason: John Grierson, Radcliffe-Brown and the enlightenment project -- Pt. II. Anthropological visions. 5. Cinema and anthropology in the postwar world. 6. The anthropological cinema of Jean Rouch. 7. The anthropological cinema of David and Judith MacDougall. 8. The anthropological television of Melissa Llewelyn-Davies.
Review: "Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentrism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. Vision is foregrounded in the work of contemporary ethnographers, focusing more general questions about technique and epistemology in ethnographic enquiry, whether image-based media are used or not."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-212) and index.

Pt. I. Visualizing anthropology. 1. The modernist moment and after, 1895-1945. 2. Anxious visions: Rivers, Cubism and anthropological modernism. 3. The innocent eye: Flaherty, Malinowski and the romantic quest. 4. The light of reason: John Grierson, Radcliffe-Brown and the enlightenment project -- Pt. II. Anthropological visions. 5. Cinema and anthropology in the postwar world. 6. The anthropological cinema of Jean Rouch. 7. The anthropological cinema of David and Judith MacDougall. 8. The anthropological television of Melissa Llewelyn-Davies.

"Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentrism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. Vision is foregrounded in the work of contemporary ethnographers, focusing more general questions about technique and epistemology in ethnographic enquiry, whether image-based media are used or not."--BOOK JACKET.

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