Book ID: CBB001211233

Made to Be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (2011)

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Banks, Marcus (Editor)
Ruby, Jay (Editor)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 419 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to Made to be Seen reflect on the role of the visual in all areas of life. Different essays critically examine a range of topics: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, the body as a cultural phenomenon, the relationship between experimental and ethnographic film, and more

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Authors & Contributors
Jacob Collins
Britt Dahlberg
Vincenzo Matera
Robert John Kett
Gabriella D'Agostino
Petryna, Adriana
Journals
History and Anthropology
History of the Human Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Springer Nature
University of California, Irvine
University of Nebraska Press
Rodopi
Prickly Paradigm Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Anthropology and historical methods
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Philosophy
Science and society
People
Vallisneri, Antonio
Tarde, Gabriel de
Virchow, Rudolf Carl
Polanyi, Michael
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Leroi-Gourhan, André
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
United States
Great Lakes (North America)
Americas
Latin America
Italy
France
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