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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.--jacket. Pt. I. The Modernist Moment And After, 1895-1945 -- Anxious Visions: Rivers, Cubism And Anthropological Modernism -- The Innocent Eye: Flaherty, Malinowski And The Romantic Quest -- The Light Of Reason: John Grierson, Radcliffe-brown And The Enlightenment Project -- Pt. Ii. Cinema And Anthropology In The Postwar World -- The Anthropological Cinema Of Jean Rouch -- The Anthropological Cinema Of David And Judith Macdougall -- The Anthropological Television Of Melissa Llewelyn-davies. Anna Grimshaw. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 174-212) And Index.

Author

Grimshaw, Anna

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511153402

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Sociology