- On Art and Culture and Gender stereotyping:
- Rethinking Visual Anthropology
Edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy
Banks, Marcus, and Howard Morphy. Rethinking visual
anthropology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Print.
For many years the field of visual anthropology has been
dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading
many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This
book shows that the scope of visual anthropology is far broader, encompassing
the analysis of still photography, television, electronic representation, art,
ritual, and material culture. Because anthropology involves the representation
of one culture or segment of society to another, say the authors, an
understanding of the nature of representational processes across cultures is
essential.
This 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, the
study of landscape, the anthropology of ritual, the anthropology of media and
communication, the history of anthropology, and art practice and production.
Also included are a wide-ranging introduction and a concluding overview.
- Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
This book showcases the exciting work emerging from the
ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both
social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media--film,
television, video--are used in societies around the globe, often in places that
have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures
in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around
the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local
impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays,
mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical
perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of
media.
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