The anthropological lens : rethinking E.E. Evans-Pritchard / Christopher Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Christopher A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Methodology--History--20th century.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Fieldwork--History--20th century.

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973.

Evans-Pritchard, E. E.

South Sudan.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This is a highly illustrated text exploring the work of Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, widely considered the most influential British anthropologist of the 20th century, through the lens of his fieldwork photography. It offers new insight and a major reinterpreatation of Evans-Pritchard's theoretical contributions to the discipline.

Contents:

Photographs are to think with: historicizing anthropology

Survivals, surveys, and struggles: first fieldwork

Visuality and textuality: encountering Zande ritual

Double alienation: fieldwork and photography between two worlds

Image, archive, and monograph: dangerous liaisons

Akobo realism: conversations with the Anuak

The participant-photographer: encountering Nuer ritual

The poet, the missionary, and the sacred spears.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 11, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-254226-5

0-19-254225-7

0-19-185070-5