Bringing together the insights of literary criticism, film theory, history, and anthropology, this book explores the tradition of ethnographic film on the Northwest Coast and its relationship to the ethnography of the area. Rosalind Morris takes account of these films, organizing her discussions around a series of detailed readings and viewings tha
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The book explores both the ethnographic imagination of the Northwest Coast and the place of that particular image in the discipline's representation of non-Western "others." Bringing together the insights of literary criticism, film theory, history, and anthropology, this book explores the tradition of ethnographic film.
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Preface and Acknowledgments -- Preview: “Persistence of Vision” -- Through a Glass Darkly: Terms and Problems for Analysis -- Celluloid Savages: Salvage Ethnography and the Narration of Disappearance -- Totems and the Potlatch People: Absence, Presence, and the Denial of History -- Remembering: The Narratives of Renewal -- Wider Angles: Toward a Conclusion
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ISBN
9780367011925
Publisert
2019-04-18
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
216

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Rosalind C. Morris is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at The University of Chicago. She conducted research on ritual theater and cultural politics in Northern Thailand and is currently writing her dissertation. A graduate of the New York Film Academy, she lives in New York.