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Mary Strong - Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work - 9780292706712 - V9780292706712
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Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work

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Description for Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work Hardcover. A study of the innovations, obligations, and fresh possibilities in the field of visual anthropology. It concentrates on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research. Editor(s): Strong, Mary; Wilder, Laena. Num Pages: 384 pages, 166 colour and b&w figures, 3 tables, 1 diagram, 1 box. BIC Classification: AJCR; APF; JFC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 284 x 223 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1988.

Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does not guarantee accurate ... Read more

This book presents visual anthropology as a work-in-progress, open to the myriad innovations that the new audiovisual communications technologies bring to the field. It is intended to aid in contextualizing, explaining, and humanizing the storehouse of visual knowledge that university students and general readers now encounter, and to help inform them about how these new media tools can be used for intellectually and socially beneficial purposes.

Concentrating on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research, the book's fifteen contributors feature populations living on all of the world's continents as well as within the United States. The final chapter gives readers practical advice about how to use the most current digital and interactive technologies to present research findings.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
431
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292706712
SKU
V9780292706712
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About Mary Strong
Mary Strong is president of the American Anthropological Association's Society for Visual Anthropology. She has been teaching for many years at the City University of New York and is a review editor for the journal Visual Anthropology. Her research involves collaborations with painters and craftspeople in Latin America and the United States. Laena Wilder is a San ... Read more

Reviews for Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work
"The authors in this volume include some of the best current researchers in the anthropological study of visual means of signification, communication, and representation." Thomas D. Blakely, Pennsylvania State University, Past President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and Organizer and Chair of the annual Visual Research Conference

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