Rethinking Visual Anthropology

This pathbreaking book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover an entire range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, ritual, media and communication, the study of landscape, the history of anthropology, and art practice and production. 'This book will undoubtedly stand as a major landmark of the institutional direction in which 'visual anthropology' of the late 1990s is going', Paul Henley, Times Literary Supplement Contributors: Marcus Banks, Debbora Battaglia, Georgina Born, Francoise Dussart, Elizabeth Edwards, Gillian Gillison, Anna Grimshaw, Joy Hendry, Felicia Hughes-Freeland, Peter Loizos, David MacDougall, D. P. Martinez, Howard Morphy, Nicholas Thomas

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: rethinking visual anthropology	p. 1
The eye in the door: anthropology, film and the exploration of interior space	p. 36
Beyond the boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography and anthropology	p. 53
First exits from observational realism: narrative experiments in recent ethnographic films	p. 81
Burlesquing knowledge: Japanese quiz shows and models of knowledge	p. 105
Balinese on television: representation and response	p. 120
Computer software as a medium: textuality, orality and sociality in an artificial intelligence research culture	p. 139
To see or not to see: looking as an object of exchange in the New Guinea Highlands	p. 170
A body painting in translation	p. 186
Displacing the visual: of Trobriand axe-blades and ambiguity in cultural practice	p. 203
Representing the bodies of the Jains	p. 216
Pine, ponds and pebbles: gardens and visual culture	p. 240
Collectivity and nationality in the anthropology of art	p. 256
The visual in anthropology	p. 276
Index	p. 296
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