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A broad study of the innovations, obligations, and new possibilities in the field of visual anthropology.

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"The authors in this volume include some of the best current researchers in the anthropological study of visual means of signification, communication, and representation." Thomas D. Blakely, Pennsylvania State University, Past President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and Organizer and Chair of the annual Visual Research Conference

Table of Contents
  • Historical Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section I. Photography Now
    • Chapter 1. Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience (Malcolm Collier)
    • Chapter 2. Documentary Photography in the Field (Laena Wilder)
    • Chapter 3. Photography and Ethnography (Richard Freeman)
  • Section II. Images from the Past
    • Chapter 4. Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care (Joanna Cohan Scherer)
    • Chapter 5. Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories (Julie M. Flowerday)
  • Section III. Moving Pictures, Film, Video, and Computer-Generated Media
    • Chapter 6. Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content (Carol Hermer)
    • Chapter 7. Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media (Peter Biella)
    • Chapter 8. Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field (Charles Thompson)
  • Section IV. Roads Less Traveled, Unusual Subfields
    • Part I. Uncommon Subject Areas
      • Chapter 9. Envisioning Primates (Anne Zeller)
      • Chapter 10. Steps to an Ethnography of Dance (Najwa Adra)
      • Chapter 11. Looking for the Past in the Present: Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba (Edward Ochsenschlager)
    • Part II. Media: Beyond Camera Work
      • Chapter 12. In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake (Kimowan McLain)
      • Chapter 13. Art and Mind: Working on Murals (Mary Strong)
      • Chapter 14. Art History and Anthropology (Louly Peacock Konz and James Peacock)
  • Section V. Epilogue
    • Chapter 15. Elementary Forms of the Digital Media: Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology (Peter Biella)
  • Glossary
  • Author Biographies
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2009
      ISBN13: 9780292706712, 978-0292706712
      ISBN10: 0292706715
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A broad study of the innovations, obligations, and new possibilities in the field of visual anthropology.

      Trade Review
      "The authors in this volume include some of the best current researchers in the anthropological study of visual means of signification, communication, and representation." Thomas D. Blakely, Pennsylvania State University, Past President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and Organizer and Chair of the annual Visual Research Conference

      Table of Contents
      • Historical Foreword
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Section I. Photography Now
        • Chapter 1. Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience (Malcolm Collier)
        • Chapter 2. Documentary Photography in the Field (Laena Wilder)
        • Chapter 3. Photography and Ethnography (Richard Freeman)
      • Section II. Images from the Past
        • Chapter 4. Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care (Joanna Cohan Scherer)
        • Chapter 5. Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories (Julie M. Flowerday)
      • Section III. Moving Pictures, Film, Video, and Computer-Generated Media
        • Chapter 6. Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content (Carol Hermer)
        • Chapter 7. Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media (Peter Biella)
        • Chapter 8. Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field (Charles Thompson)
      • Section IV. Roads Less Traveled, Unusual Subfields
        • Part I. Uncommon Subject Areas
          • Chapter 9. Envisioning Primates (Anne Zeller)
          • Chapter 10. Steps to an Ethnography of Dance (Najwa Adra)
          • Chapter 11. Looking for the Past in the Present: Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba (Edward Ochsenschlager)
        • Part II. Media: Beyond Camera Work
          • Chapter 12. In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake (Kimowan McLain)
          • Chapter 13. Art and Mind: Working on Murals (Mary Strong)
          • Chapter 14. Art History and Anthropology (Louly Peacock Konz and James Peacock)
      • Section V. Epilogue
        • Chapter 15. Elementary Forms of the Digital Media: Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology (Peter Biella)
      • Glossary
      • Author Biographies
      • Index

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