The Culture of Copying in Japan

Critical and Historical Perspectives

Edited by Rupert Cox

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

It addresses a question...

Published September 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Future of Visual Anthropology

Engaging the Senses

By Sarah Pink

From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Working Images

Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography

Edited by Ana Isabel Alfonso, Laszlo Kurti, Sarah Pink

Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists...

Published June 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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Picturing the Social Landscape

Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination

By Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman

We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how...

Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.

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Photographs Objects Histories

On the Materiality of Images

Edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Janice Hart

This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use....

Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film

By E.D Lewis

Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He...

Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge.

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Surrealism and the Exotic

By Louise Tythacott

Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and...

Published January 30th 2003 by Routledge.

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A Host of Devils

The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture

By Zachary Kingdon

A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among...

Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Shadow House

Interpretations of Northwest Coast Art

By Dr Jonathan Meuli, Jonathan Meuli

In this fascinating study of Northwest Coast art, Jonathan Meuli has not only outlined a history of ideas associated with Northwest Coast art objects from...

Published November 8th 2001 by Routledge.

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VISUAL RESOURCES

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Published March 15th 1999 by Routledge.

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