num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology
titlecomplete: The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology
genres: Anthropology
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Cambridge University Press