Beyond Text?

Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology
Herausgeber: Cox, Rupert; Wright, Christopher; Irving, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology is about 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 creative forms of representation that are not based solely around text or on correspondence theories of truth. The volume brings together leading figures in anthropology, visual and sound studies to explore how knowledge, sensation and embodied experiences can be researched and represented by combining different visual, aural and textual forms which it demonstrates through an accompanying DVD. The book and DVD make an argument for a necessary, critical development in anthropological ways of knowing that take place not merely at the level of theory and representation but also through innovative fieldwork methods and media practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085055
• ISBN-10: 0719085055
• Artikelnr.: 42788606

Autorenporträt

Rupert Cox is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester Andrew Irving is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The sense of the senses
Rupert Cox, Andrew Irving and Christoper Wright 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. Looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka
James Thompson 6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
Paul Carter SOUND 7. Transplant (excerpt)
John Wynne and Tim Wainwright 8. Ochlophonic Study #3: Hong Kong (excerpt)
John Levack Drever 9. The Castaways Project Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan 10. Air Pressure: a sound film
Angus Carlyle and Rupert Cox 11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl
Peter Cusack 12. Contest Behaviour (excerpt)
Louise K. Wilson FILM 13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
Catherine Russell 14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Short Films
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 18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses
David Howes 19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy
Janet Wolff Appendix: DVD contents Bibliography Index