- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
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1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1 -
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography -
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text -
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place -
5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka -
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing -
7. Transplant -
8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong -
9. The Castaways Project -
10. Air Pressure: a sound film -
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl -
12. Contest Behaviour -
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography -
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War -
15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’ -
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture -
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics -
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses -
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy1 - Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses
Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses
- Chapter:
- (p.173) 18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses
- Source:
- Beyond text?
- Author(s):
David Howes
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
This essay reflects on various contributions to the Beyond Text volume, from the point of view of the anthropology of the senses. It makes the point that sensory anthropology has a long history in the discipline, which although side-lined by the approach to ‘culture as text’ and subsequent experiments with writing, has recently been revived; not least by the 2007 conference that gave rise to this book. It comments particularly on the critical potential of the medium of film to be a form of sensory ethnography and takes issue with the phenomenological arguments of the anthropologist Tim Ingold.
Keywords: Senses, Perception, Ingold, Tim, Visual anthropology, Seeing, Film
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
-
1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1 -
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography -
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text -
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place -
5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka -
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing -
7. Transplant -
8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong -
9. The Castaways Project -
10. Air Pressure: a sound film -
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl -
12. Contest Behaviour -
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography -
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War -
15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’ -
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture -
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics -
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses -
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy1 - Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
