Made to be seen : perspectives on the history of visual anthropology / edited by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banks, Marcus.

Ruby, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual anthropology.

Physical Description:

419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Summary:

Made to Be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field and to reflect on the role of the visual in all areas of life. The essays critically examine a range of topics: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, the body as a cultural phenomenon, the relation between experimental and ethnographic film, and more. The first attempt to present a comprehensive overview of the many aspects of an anthropological approach to the study of visual and pictorial culture, Made to Be Seen will be the standard reference on the subject for years to come. Book jacket.

Contents:

Skilled visions : toward an ecology of visual inscriptions / Cristina Grasseni

Material visions : dress and textiles / Sandra Dudley

Visual anthropology and the built environment : interpenetrations of the visible and the invisible / Roxana Waterson

Unfinished dialogues : notes toward an alternative history of art and anthropology / Arnd Schneider

Theorizing "the body" in visual culture / Brenda Farnell

Tracing photography / Elizabeth Edwards

Ethnographic film / Matthew Durington and Jay Ruby

Digital visual anthropology : potentials and challenges / Sarah Pink

Native intelligence : a short history of debates on indigenous media and ethnographic film / Faye Ginsburg

Productive dissonance and sensuous image-making : visual anthropology and experimental film / Kathryn Ramey

Anthropology and the problem of audience reception / Stephen Putnam Hughes

Hindsight/postscript : ethical and epistemic reflections on/of anthropological vision / Michael Herzfeld.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226036618

0226036618

9780226036625

0226036626

OCLC:

666234899