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Title: Visualizing Anthropology
Author : Anna Grimshaw
Release Date : January 24, 2012
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 14341 KB

Description

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.

'This book is essential reading for any student of visual anthropology and will be an inspiring text for academic researchers and practitioners across the social sciences and humanities.'

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 li