Visual Anthropology

Reading List

 

 

Asch, Timothy with Jesus Ignacio Cardozo, Hortensia Cabellero and Jose Bortoli

         1991. The Story We Now Want to Hear is Not Ours to Tell: Relinquishing Control Over Representation: Toward Sharing Visual Communication Skills with The Yanomami. Visual Anthropology Review 7(2):102-106.

 

Asch, Timothy, John Marshall and Peter Spier.

         1973. Ethnographic Film: Structure and Function. Annual Review of Anthropology 2:179-187.

 

Chalfen, Richard

         1987. Snapshot Communication: Exploring the Decisive Half Minute IN Snapshot Versions of Life. Bowling Green State University Press: Bowling Green, OH.

 

Collier, John Jr.

         1988. Visual Anthropology and the Future of Ethnographic Film. IN Anthropological Filmmaking. J. R. Rollwagen, ed. pp.73-96. Harwood Academic Publishers: Chur & Paris.

 

Collier, John Jr. and Malcolm Collier.

         1986. The Camera in the Field. IN Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. pp. 15-18.

 

-----. 1986. Orientation and Rapport. IN Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. pp. 19-28.

 

-----. 1986. Finding Patterns and Meaning. IN Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. pp. 195-201.

 

Crapanzano, Vincent.

         1986. Hermes’ Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description. IN Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. pp. 51-76. University of California Press: Berkeley & London.

 

Crawford, Peter Ian.

         1992. Film as Discourse: The Invention of Anthropological Realities. IN Film as Ethnography. P.I. Crawford & D. Turton, eds. pp. 66-82. Manchester University Press: Manchester & New York.

 

de Brigard, Emilie

         1975. The History of Ethnographic Film. IN Principles of Visual Anthropology. Paul Hockings, ed. pp.13-43. Mouton: The Hague.

 

Freudenthal, Solveig.

         1988. What to Tell and How to Show it: Issues in Anthropological Filmmaking. IN Anthropological Filmmaking. J. R. Rollwagen, ed. pp.123-134. Harwood Academic Publishers: Chur & Paris.

 

Ginsburg, Faye

         1992. Television and the Mediation of Culture: Issues in British Ethnographic Film. Visual Anthropology Review 8(1):97-103.

 

Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson

         1997. After “Peoples and Cultures” IN Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. A. Gupta & J. Ferguson, eds. pp.1-29. Duke University Press: Durham & London.

 

Hastrup, Kirsten.

         1992. Anthropological Visions: Some Notes on Visual and Textual Authority. IN Film as Ethnography. P.I. Crawford & D. Turton, eds. pp. 8-25. Manchester University Press: Manchester & New York.

 

Heider, Karl G.

         1976. Introduction. IN Ethnographic Film. pp. 3-15. University of Texas Press: Austin.

 

         1976. A History of Ethnographic Film. IN Ethnographic Film. pp. 16- 45. University of Texas Press: Austin.

 

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.

         1991. Objects of Ethnography. IN Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. pp.386. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C. & London.

 

Loizos, Peter.

         1992. Admissible Evidence? Film in Anthropology. IN Film as Ethnography. P.I. Crawford & D. Turton, eds. pp. 51-65. Manchester University Press: Manchester & New York.

 

         1993. For the Record: Documentation Filming from Innocent Realism to Self-Consciousness. IN Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-Consciousness 1955-85. pp. 16-44. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

Lutz, Catherine and Jane Collins

         1991. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic. Visual Anthropology Review 7(1): 134-149.

 

         1993. Comfortable Strangers: The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography. IN Reading National Geographic. pp. 1-14. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

         1993. Becoming America’s Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century. IN Reading National Geographic. pp. 15-46. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

         1993. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes. IN Reading National Geographic. pp. 187-216. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

Macdonald, Sharon

         1998 Exhibitions of Power and Powers of Exhibition. IN. The Politics of Display: Museum, Science Culture. Pp. 1-24. Routledge: New York.

 

MacDougall, David.

         1975. Beyond Observational Cinema. IN Principles of Visual Anthropology. Paul Hockings, ed. pp.109-120. Mouton: The Hague.

 

         1995. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film. IN Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography. L. Devereaux & R. Hillman, eds. pp. 217-255. University of California Press: Berkeley & London.

 

         1998. Unprivileged Camera Style. IN Transcultural Cinema. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.

 

Malkki, Liisa H.

         1997. National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees IN Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. A. Gupta & J. Ferguson, eds. pp.52-74. Duke University Press: Durham & London.

 

Mead, Margaret.

         1975. Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words. IN Principles of Visual Anthropology. Paul Hockings, ed. pp.3-10. Mouton: The Hague.

 

Peters, John Durham

         1997. Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture. IN Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. A. Gupta & J. Ferguson, eds. pp.75-92. Duke University Press: Durham & London.

 

Poole, Deborah

         1997. Negotiating Modernity IN Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World. pp. 198-216. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.

 

Rollwagen, Jack R.

         1988. The Role of Anthropological Theory in “Ethnographic” Filmmaking. IN Anthropological Filmmaking. J. R. Rollwagen, ed. pp.287-315. Harwood Academic Publishers: Chur & Paris.

 

Rony, Fatimah Tobing

         1996. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography IN The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle. pp. 99-126. Duke University Press: Durham & London.

 

Rosaldo, Renato

         1989. After Objectivism IN Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Beacon Press: Boston.

 

Ruby, Jay.

         2000. Exposing Yourself: Reflexivity, Anthropology, and Film. IN Picturing Culture: Exploration of Film and Anthropology. pp.151-180. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

         2000. The Viewer Viewed: The Reception of Ethnographic Films. IN Picturing Culture: Exploration of Film and Anthropology. pp.181-193. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

         2000. Researching with a Camera: The Anthropologist as Picture Taker. IN Picturing Culture: Exploration of Film and Anthropology. pp.41-66. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London.

 

Shohat, Ella

         1991. Ethnicities-in-Relation: Toward a Multicultural Reading of American Cinema IN Unspeakable Images. ????

 

Shostak, Marjorie

         1981. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Vintage Books: New York.

 

Trachtenberg, Alan

         19??. Illustrious Americans IN Reading American Photographs.??

 

Turner, Terence

         1991. The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video-making in Kayapo Communities. Visual Anthropology Review 7(2):68-76.

 

         1992. The Kayapo on Television: An Anthropological Viewing. Visual Anthropology Review 8(1):107-112.

 

Young, Colin

         1975. Observational Cinema. IN Principles of Visual Anthropology. Paul Hockings, ed. pp.65-80. Mouton: The Hague.