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The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology

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  • Author: Grimshaw, Anna
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    2014
    Summary:

    Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentrism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. Vision is foregrounded in the work of contemporary ethnographers, focusing more general questions about technique and epistemology in ethnographic enquiry, whether image-based media are used or not.

    Subject(s): Visual anthropology
    Original Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2001
    Language(s): English