Hacia el giro corporal en la antropología visual: imágenes, sentidos y corporalidades en la Colombia contemporánea

2020/02/19 2485

Hacia el giro corporal en la antropología visual: imágenes, sentidos y corporalidades en la Colombia contemporánea by Catalina Cortés Severino Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2019 Publisher link El libro presenta algunas reflexiones sobre el campo contemporáneo de la antropología visual, derivadas de la experiencia investigativa de la autora en los últimos años. Si bien Continue Reading

Muddied Waters. The Fictionalisation of Ethnographic Film

2020/01/15 4146

Toni de Bromhead Muddied Waters. The Fictionalisation of Ethnographic Film 2019, Intervention Press Website Visual anthropologists and ethnographic film-makers continue to disagree on what is and what is not ethnographic film. Meanwhile the situation becomes ever more unclear, possibly to the detriment of ethnographic film. Toni de Bromhead now tackles this problem from Continue Reading

Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences

2019/12/13 3445

Terence Heng Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences 2016, Taylor and Francis book website The use of images, particularly photography, has been steadily gaining popularity in academia, but there has not yet been a book that deals with the act and process of photo-taking in the field. Drawing upon 21 years […]Continue Reading

Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human

2019/12/13 2491

Stuart McLean Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human 2017, Minnesota University Press > book website On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature. He insists that experiments with language and form are a performative means of exploring alternative possibilities of Continue Reading

African Video Movies and Gobal Desires. A Ghanaian History

2019/09/25 2134

Carmela Garritano African Video Movies and Global Desires. A Ghanaian History 2015, Ohio University Press Website African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural […]Continue Reading

Nigerian Video Films

2019/09/25 2834

Jonathan Haynes (ed) Nigerian Video Films 2000, Ohio University Press Website Nigerian video films—dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes—are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based […]Continue Reading

Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925

2019/09/09 1292

Robert J. Gordon Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925 OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997 https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Picturing+Bushmen The Denver African Expedition of 1925 sought “the cradle of Humanity.” The explorers returned claiming to have found the “Missing Link” in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari—and they proceeded to market this image. As Continue Reading

Agitating Images. Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia

2019/07/04 1399

Agitating Images Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia by Craig Campbell University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Website In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from this period complicate our understanding of this history. Continue Reading

Modernist Art in Ethiopia, by Elizabeth W. Giorgis

2019/05/16 1604

Modernist Art in Ethiopia Elizabeth W. Giorgis Ohio University Press, 2019 Web Site If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia’s inimitable historical condition—its independence save for five years under Italian occupation—mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia—the first book-length study of the Continue Reading

Merleau-Ponty Space, Place, Architecture Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann

2019/04/30 1853

Merleau-Ponty. Space, Place, Architecture Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty’s thought to Continue Reading