The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology, attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She argues for the use of vision as a critical tool with which anthropologists can address issues of knowledge and technique. The first part of the book critically examines anthropology's history, focusing on the work of key individuals — Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown — in the context of early modern art and cinema. In the book's second part, Grimshaw considers the anthropological films of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies.

• Author
• Anna Grimshaw

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 240

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521774758

• Genres
• anthropology

• Release date
• 2001