The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology, attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She argues for the use of vision as a critical tool with which anthropologists can address issues of knowledge and technique. The first part of the book critically examines anthropology's history, focusing on the work of key individuals--Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown--in the context of early modern art and cinema. In the book's second part, Grimshaw considers the anthropological films of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies.

Author: Anna Grimshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/30/2001
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780521774758

About the Author
Grimshaw, Anna: - Anna Grimshaw is Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. She is the author of Servants of the Buddha (1992) and editor of the C.L.R. James Reader (1992).

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