Viewpoints : visual anthropologists at work / Mary Strong, text editor ; Laena Wilder, visual editor.

Other author Strong, Mary.
Other author Wilder, Laena.
Format Book
Publication InfoAustin, TX : University of Texas Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxv, 415 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Sect. I. Photography now : Photographic exploration of social and cultural experience / Malcolm Collier -- Documentary photography in the field / Laena Wilder -- Photography and ethnography / Richard Freeman -- Sect. II. Images from the past : Historical photographs of North American Indians : primary documents, BUT view with care / Joanna Cohan Scherer -- Blasting a boulder and building memories / Julie M. Flowerday -- Sect. III. Moving pictures : film, video, and computer-generated media : Reading the mind of the ethnographic filmmaker : mining a flawed genre for anthropological content / Carol Hermer -- Visual anthropology in a time of war : intimacy and interactivity in ethnographic media / Peter Biella -- Guestworkers : farmworkers, filmmakers, and their obligations in the field / Charles Thompson --
Contents Sect. IV. Roads less traveled, unusual subfields : Part I. Uncommon subject areas : Envisioning primates / Anne Zeller -- Steps to an ethnography of dance / Najwa Adra -- Looking for the past in the present : ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba / Edward Ochsenschlager -- Part II. Media : beyond camera work : In search of live relics in Cold Lake / Kimowan McLain -- Art and mind : working on murals / Mary Strong -- Art history and anthropology / Louly Peacock Konz and James Peacock -- Sect. V. Epilogue : Elementary forms of the digital media : tools for applied action collaboration and research in visual anthropology / Peter Biella.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 387), webography (p. 387) and index.
LCCN 2008035334
ISBN9780292706712 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0292706715 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 2973425