Tiré du site Internet de University of Minnesota Press: "Brian Hochman shows how widespread interest in recording vanishing races and disappearing cultures influenced audiovisual innovation, experimentation, and use in the U.S. Drawing extensively on seldom-seen archival sources…
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world's primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings--modern media in their technological infancy--…
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American writers and anthropologists believed that evolutionary forces had pushed the world's primitive races to the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonograph recordings were specially suited to…
'I Swear I Saw This' records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through 40 years of travels in Colombia.
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 - as well as its caption, "I Swear I Saw This"--Tau…
4e de couv.: I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006--as well as its caption, "I swear I saw …
I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006--as well as its caption, "I swear I saw this"--Taussi…
'I Swear I Saw This' records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through 40 years of travels in Colombia.
"The nature of anthropological fieldwork changes from generation to generation, reflecting current personal, moral and political issues. This collection addresses the central position of fieldwork in modern social anthropology, examining previous works on the subject and locatin…