Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology
Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology
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Abstract
Beyond text?: Critical practices and sensory anthropology addresses a series of questions concerning the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. The book suggests that if different sensory experiences embody and facilitate different kinds of knowledge, then we need to develop new methods and more appropriate forms of representation that are not based simply in text, writing or correspondence theories of truth. As such, Beyond Text: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology brings together leading figures in anthropology, visual, sound and film studies to explore how knowledge, sensation and embodied experiences can be researched and represented by combining different visual, aural, and textual forms—for example text and image, image and sound, body and voice. What—we ask—is the relationship between the interiority of a person’s experience and its exteriority that is present to the eye, the ear and other sense organs that make the experience ‘open’ to anthropological forms of documentation, theorisation and representation? We argue that there is a necessary, critical development in our ways of knowing that must take place not merely at the level of theory and representation but also through innovative fieldwork methods and media practices. The collected papers and audio-visual materials presented on a DVD, explore the potential for a more sensorially-grounded, critically aware and creative approach to cultural analysis, media production and field research.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: the sense of the senses
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Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1
Arnd Schneider
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Photo-essays
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Sound
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The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
Paul Carter
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Transplant
John Wynne andTim Wainwright
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Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong
John Levack Drever
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The Castaways Project
Steven Feld andVirginia Ryan
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Air Pressure: a sound film
Angus Carlyle andRupert Cox
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Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl
Peter Cusack
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Contest Behaviour
Louise K. Wilson
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The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
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Film
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Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
Catherine Russell
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Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War
Jeff Daniel Silva
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Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
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Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture
Cathy Greenhalgh
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Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics
Jennifer Deger
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Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
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Sensory anthropology and critical practice
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End Matter
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