A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — London: The Royal College of Art, 2018. — 493 p.: ill. This thesis investigates Chinese wallpaper as global material culture. It goes beyond the traditional contexts of Europe, the eighteenth century country house and the ‘Chinese room’, in which Chinese wallpapers have...
Routledge, 1997. — 290 p. First published in 1993. "John Marshall's lively and forthright style makes gripping reading, reflecting his own personal character. Marshall presents his heartfelt methodology for making anthropologically and socially meaningful films, and the book offers a unique and multidimensional view of the work of a pioneering filmmaker." — Allison Jablonko of...
Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Department of Multimedia and Digital Art, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design; Monash University, 2012 — 206 p. For my PhD I have produced a film and a ficto-critical thesis that explores the issue of audience interaction as a primary determinant in the making of an artwork. The focus of the research is...
4th Edition. — SAGE Publications, 2021. — 304 p. This book is the definitive guide to understanding and doing visual ethnography. Sarah Pink’s landmark text provides you with both the critical theoretical foundations and the creative tools and techniques you need to conduct your own visual ethnography. Covering the material and the digital, and tying key concepts and ideas to...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 173 p. Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behaviour for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual,...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN 9780747599579 As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. — 271 p.: ill. — ISBN: 0-19-828013-0. In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. As a theory of the nexus of social relations involving works of art, this work suggests that in certain contexts, art-objects substitute for persons...
Dundurn, 2004. — 192 p. John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic and the Arctic. Faces of the North presents a record of...
Modern Academic Publishing, 2018. — 362 p. — ISBN: 9783946198390; 9783946198369; 9783946198376; 9783941698383. An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels--one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley--the research is...
Revised Edition — University of Texas Press, 2006. — 178 p. Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to this field of visual...
Beyond Words, 2005. — 424 p. A photographic celebration of America's ethnic diversity documents the customs, dress, and cultures of thirty groups currently residing in the U.S., including the Irish, Russians, Cubans, Native Americans, and Eskimos. America is a nation of immigrants. Even the ancestors of the Native Americans migrated across the Bering Straight thousands of years...
International Society for Educational Information Press, 1972. — 100 p. Japan Through Pictures. A Selection from the Fourth Photo Contest: The Faces of a Country and of her People. We are very happy to present this issue of Understanding Japan, "The Faces of a Country and her People." Ever since the Society initiated our annual nationwide amateur photography contest, with the aim...
Владивосток: Дальневосточный федеральный университет, 2014. — 304 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7444-3082-5. Книга содержит иллюстрации (почтовые открытки, фотографии, рисунки), терминологический словарь плотов, катамаранов и лодок, используемых многими народами мира в повседневной жизни. Лодки буквально «законсервировались» в своей традиционной форме, позволяя на деле проверить и принять...
George Braziller, 2007. — 156 p. "Look Close, See Far" uses photography and essays to create a cultural portrait of the Maya Indians. Respected scholars introduce these indigenous communities of Central America and their ancient and complex spiritual, cultural, artistic, and architectural traditions. One hundred stunning black and white photographs document the remaining...
М.: Вариант, ЦСПГИ, 2009. — 312 с. — (Библиотека Журнала исследований социальной политики). — ISBN: 978-5-903360-23-9. «Городские карты памяти» представляют возможность исторических экскурсов и когнитивную реконструкцию повседневного опыта. Эта книга стала продолжением издательской инициативы Центра социальной политики и гендерных исследований в области визуального анализа....
Routledge, 2003. — 328 p. Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes 'The...