Beyond text? : critical practices and sensory anthropology / edited by Rupert Cox, Andrew Irving and Christopher Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Rupert A., editor.

Irving, Andrew, 1966- editor.

Wright, Christopher (Christopher J.), editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sensory evaluation.

Visual anthropology.

Senses and sensation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book addresses a series of questions concerning the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. It suggests that if different sensory experiences embody and facilitate different kinds of knowledge, then we need to develop new methods and more appropriate forms of representation that are not based solely around text or on correspondence theories of truth. As such, Beyond text? brings together leading figures in anthropology, visual, sound and film studies to explore how knowledge, sensation and embodied experiences can be researched and represented by combining different visual, aural and textual forms - for example text and image, image and sound, body and voice. What - the contributors ask - is the relationship between the interiority of a person's experience and its exteriority that is present to the eye, the ear and other sense organs that make the experience open to anthropological forms of documentations, theorization and representation? Beyond text? argues that there is a necessary, critical development in our ways of knowing that must take place not merely at the level of theory and representation but also through innovative fieldwork methods and media practices. The collected papers and audio-visual materials presented on the enclosed DVD explore the potential for a more sensorially grounded, critically aware and creative approach to cultural analysis, media production and field research. Book jacket.

Contents:

Video: Air pressure / Angus Carlyle and Rupert Cox

Balkan rhapsodies (extract) / Jeff Daniel Silva

Christmas with Wawa / Jennifer Deger

Cottonopolis (extract) / Cathy Greenhalgh

Sweetgrass (extract) / Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor

Transplant / John Wynne and Tim Wainwright

Where water touches land / Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan.

1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations / Arnd Schneider

Photo-essays

2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography / Patrick Sutherland

3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text / Andrew Irving

4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka / James Thompson

Sound

6. saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing / Paul Carter

7. Transplant / Tim Wainwright

8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong / John Levack Drever

9. Castaways Project / Virginia Ryan

10. Air Pressure: a sound film / Rupert Cox

11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl / Peter Cusack

12. Contest Behaviour / Louise K. Wilson

Film

13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography / Catherine Russell

14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War / Jeff Daniel Silva

15. Sweetgrass: ̀Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet' / Lucien Castaing-Taylor

16. Cottonopolis: cinematography ethnography, historiography and texture / Cathy Greenhalgh

17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics / Jennifer Deger

Sensory anthropology and critical practice

18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses / David Howes

19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy / Janet Wolff.

Audio: Chernobyl soundscapes

Ochlophonic study: Hong Kong

Interior dialogues: Meredith, Thomas, Jim, Sara, Tony

Contest behaviour.

Notes:

Accompanying videodisc includes video and audio files.

Based on contributions to the conference "Beyond Text" held in 2007 at the University of Manchester.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211), filmography (pages 211-212), discography (page 212), and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781526109958

1526109956

Publisher Number:

99984999714

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.