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Visual anthropology : essential method and theory / Fadwa El Guindi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El Guindi, Fadwa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual anthropology--Philosophy.
- Visual anthropology.
- Visual anthropology--Methodology.
- Methodology.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to visual anthropology and the use of film in ethnographic research. She shows how visual media is now an accepted part of anthropological methodology, a vital tool that produces knowledge about the range of cultures and about culture itself. It is an excellent guide to the methods and goals of visual anthropology, valuable also in film and other media instruction concerned with cross-cultural representation.
- Contents:
- History, Euro-Americanization, and new directions
- For God's sake, Margaret
- Filming others
- Filming selves
- Discovery
- From doing cinema to doing anthropology
- Parameters for visual ethnography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759103941
- 075910395X
- OCLC:
- 54931583
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