The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology / Anna Grimshaw.
The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology / Anna Grimshaw.
The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology / Anna Grimshaw.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N301.078/ 1
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English
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xiii 222 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Visualizing anthropology -- 1. The modernist moment and after, 1895-1945 -- 2. Anxious visions: Rivers, Cubism and anthropological modernism -- 3. The innocent eye: Flaherty, Malinowski and the romantic quest -- 4. The light of reason: John Grierson, Radcliffe-Brown and the enlightenment proj...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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England
Date Published
2001.
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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 wit...
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The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology / Anna Grimshaw.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-212) and index.
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N301.078/ 1
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74VvyX66NN2b
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0521774756 (pb)
9780521773102
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9780521774758 (pb)
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301.078
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991016132909702626
