Calling the Shots. Aboriginal Photographies

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Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants who can use this rich archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture.Continue Reading

Art beyond Itself: Anthropology for a Society without a Story Line

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First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini\'s deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining contemporary art and its role in society is an ever more complicated endeavorContinue Reading

Experimental Film and Anthropology

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Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materiality and time, non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema Continue Reading

Visuality/Materiality. Images, Objects and Practices

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Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualising the visual as an embodied, material, and often politically-charged realm.Continue Reading

Museums. A Visual Anthropology

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Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they Continue Reading

Migrations d’aventures. Terrains africains

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Sylvie Bredeloup Migrations d'aventures. Terrains africains 2014, CTHS Considérer l’aventure comme une clé de lecture permet de jeter un regard décalé sur les migrations africaines et de sortir de l’ombre le caractère incertain et souvent individuel de l’expérience migratoire.Continue Reading