This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of non-European figures....Lasīt vairāk
This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology....Lasīt vairāk
Susan Ossman takes up questions of how we conceptualize and constitute fields in anthropology and shows how art can enable and enhance social inquiry through this experimental biographical work....Lasīt vairāk
This exciting book takes a profound new approach to the study of four related disciplines and seeks to tie them together. Tim Ingold considers anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture as ways of making, involving the creation of knowledge, th...Lasīt vairāk
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists....Lasīt vairāk
This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery....Lasīt vairāk
Utilizing anthropological theory, the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno, and Horckheimer, extensive research on the Cuna Indians, and work on colonialism and postcolonialism, Taussig analyzes mimesis - the idea of imitation - across time and cultures....Lasīt vairāk
