Wondrous Difference
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780231116961
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Social & cultural anthropology; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Ethnology And Ethnography; Motion Pictures (Specific Aspects); Performing Arts; Archaeology / Anthropology; Performing Arts/Dance; Anthropology - Cultural; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts / Film / General; Anthropology - General; Ethnological museums and colle; Ethnological museums and collections; History; Indigenous peoples in motion p; Indigenous peoples in motion pictures; Motion pictures in ethnology
First sentence: ONE OF THE most productive sites for historical and theoretical investigation of the precinematic roots of American ethnographic film is the nineteenth-century museum of natural history, an institution that offered a veritable catalogue of popular figurations of the ethnographic Other.