Made to Be Seen
Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology
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Made To Be Seen: Historical Perspectives on Visual Anthropology
Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby
1 Skilled Visions: Toward an Ecology of Visual Inscriptions
Cristina Grasseni
2 Material Visions: Dress and Textiles
Sandra Dudley
3 Visual Anthropology and the Built Environment: Interpenetrations of the Visible and the Invisible
Roxana Waterson
4 Unfinished Dialogues: Notes toward an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology
Arnd Schneider
5 Theorizing “the Body” in Visual Culture
Brenda Farnell
6 Tracing Photography
Elizabeth Edwards
7 Ethnographic Film
Matthew Durington and Jay Ruby
8 Digital Visual Anthropology: Potentials and Challenges
Sarah Pink
9 Native Intelligence: A Short History of Debates on Indigenous Media and Ethnographic Film
Faye Ginsburg
10 Productive Dissonance and Sensuous Image-Making: Visual Anthropology and Experimental Film
Kathryn Ramey
11 Anthropology and the Problem of Audience Reception
Stephen Putnam Hughes
Hindsight/Postscript
Ethical and Epistemic Reflections on/of Anthropological Vision
Bibliography
Filmography
Contributors
Index
“Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby are leading figures in the field of visual anthropology, and in Made to Be Seen they have assembled an excellent set of authors to analyze the breadth of the discipline. In their introduction Banks and Ruby show clearly why paying attention to the visual dimension of human culture is vital, provide a good sense of the development of the field over time, and offer their views on how it can achieve its full potential. The rest of the essays display a diverse, balanced range of views that taken together provide an outstanding addition to the literature.”
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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