Description
Book SynopsisAddresses a series of questions concerning the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The sense of the senses - Rupert Cox, Andrew Irving and Christoper Wright
1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations - Arnd Schneider
PHOTO-ESSAYS
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography - Patrick Sutherland
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text - Andrew Irving
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
5. Looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka - James Thompson
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing - Paul Carter
SOUND
7. Transplant (excerpt) - John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
8. Ochlophonic Study #3: Hong Kong (excerpt) - John Levack Drever
9. The Castaways Project
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan
10. Air Pressure: a sound film - Angus Carlyle and Rupert Cox
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl - Peter Cusack
12. Contest Behaviour (excerpt) - Louise K. Wilson
FILM
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography - Catherine Russell
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Short Films - Jeff Daniel Silva
15. Sweetgrass: 'Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet.' - Lucien Castaing-Taylor
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture - Cathy Greenhalgh
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics - Jennifer Deger
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses - David Howes
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy - Janet Wolff
Appendix: DVD contents
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