Beyond text? : critical practices and sensory anthropology /
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Manchester University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Manchester : |
Publication Dates: | 2016. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Item Description: |
Accompanying videodisc includes video and audio files. Based on contributions to the conference "Beyond Text" held in 2007 at the University of Manchester. |
Carrier Form: | xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211), filmography (pages 211-212) , discography (page 212) , and index. |
ISBN: |
9780719085055 (hardback) : 0719085055 (hardback) |
Index Number: | GN347 |
CLC: | C958 |
Call Number: | C958/B573 |
Contents: |
Air pressure / Balkan rhapsodies (extract) / Christmas with Wawa / Cottonopolis (extract) / Sweetgrass (extract) / Transplant / Where water touches land / Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations / Photo-essays -- Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography / Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text / Exile, the sorrow of time and place / Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka / Sound -- saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing / Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong / Castaways Project / Air Pressure: a sound film / Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl / Contest Behaviour / Film -- Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography / Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War / Sweetgrass: ̀Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet' / Cottonopolis: cinematography ethnography, historiography and texture / Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics / Sensory anthropology and critical practice -- Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses / After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy / Chernobyl soundscapes -- Ochlophonic study: Hong Kong -- Interior dialogues: Meredith, Thomas, Jim, Sara, Tony -- Contest behaviour. |