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From site to sight : anthropology, photography, and the power of imagery
From Site to Sight, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition is a facsimile reprint with expanded content of one of the first publications devoted to the long and creative intersection of anthropology and photography. In the catalogue of a groundbreaking 1986 exhibition the authors focus on materials from the vast holdings of the Photographic Archives at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, from daguerreotypes to satellite images. The original text is a wide-ranging investigation into how anthropologists have used the camera as a recording, analytic, and aesthetic medium, and it explores the broader implications of the uses--and misuses--of visual imagery within the human sciences. Ira Jacknis's comprehensive review of this foundational text in the field of visual anthropology traces the volume's influence on subsequent literature and developments in the field. An important contribution to the literature on the relationship between still photography and the discipline of anthropology, Jacknis's in-depth introductory essay serves to update and reintroduce Banta and Hinsley's work to a new generation of students and scholars. With fresh relevance in this age of ubiquitous visual media, From Site to Sight demonstrates the enduring value of the archive and informs readers about the ways in which the photographic image reflects changing perceptions of anthropologists toward their subjects.-- Provided by publisher
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The museum of the senses : experiencing art and collections
Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topics range from the tactile power of relics to the sensuous allure of cabinets of curiosities, and from the feel of a Rembrandt to the scent of Monet's garden. The book concludes with a discussion of how contemporary museums are stimulating the senses through interactive and multimedia displays. Classen, a leading authority on the cultural history of the senses, has produced a fascinating study of sensual and emotional responses to artefacts from the middle ages to the present. The Museum of the Senses is an important read for anyone interested in the history of art as well as for students and researchers in cultural studies and museum studies.
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Amazonian Indigenous Cultures in Art and Anthropological Exhibitions
The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in exhibitions from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of several temporary exhibitions taking place in both art and anthropological institutions from the 1980s onwards.
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Boundaries and Margins
This article focuses on the Greek community of Alexandria, a socially and territorially bounded Diaspora entity that articulates a sense of connection to place through claims of a historically continuous socio-spatial connection to both Egypt and Greece. Through analyses of visual material collected and produced during fieldwork, I explore the spatial and social boundaries of the community before and after Nasser’s 1952 revolution and highlight discontinuities in the narratives and imaginings of the city articulated by different generations. Studying the creation of new borders, I reveal how restriction to, and isolation within, the ‘golden cage’ of Greek areas is both willingly embraced and a source of frustration. I conclude by outlining how spatial and ideological boundaries overlap and how they are shifted and defended by Greek and non-Greek inhabitants of the city.
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The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror
This essay examines the connections between art and politics in Middle East arts events in the U.S. since 9/11/2001. It critiques the universalist assumptions about humanity and the agentive capacity of art to build bridges of understanding in contexts of so-called civilizational conflict-assumptions that have strong roots in anthropology. By juxtaposing evidence of how the notion of \"humanity\" is deployed in exhibitions of Palestinian art with an analysis of the three more predominant types of arts events (historical Islamic art, Sufi arts, and contemporary art by Muslim women), the essay demonstrates how American secular elite discourse on Middle Eastern art corresponds to that of the \"War on Terror.\"
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Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles: Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia
This article is focused on several themes connected with the history of photography, political exile in Imperial Russia, exploration and representations of Siberia in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Photography became an essential tool in numerous geographic, topographic and ethnographic expeditions to Siberia in the late 19th century; well-known scientists started to master photography or were accompanied by professional photographers in their expeditions, including ones organized by the Russian Imperial Geographic Society, which resulted in the photographic records, reports, publications and exhibitions. Photography was rapidly spreading across Asian Russia and by the end of the 19th century there was a photo studio (or several ones) in almost every Siberian town. Political exiles were often among Siberian photographers, making photography their new profession, business, a way of getting a social status in the local society, and a means of surviving financially as well as intellectually and emotionally. They contributed significantly to the museum's collections by photographing indigenous people in Siberia and even traveling to Mongolia and China, displaying \"types\" as a part of anthropological research in Asia and presenting \"views\" of the Russian empire's borderlands. The visual representation of Siberia corresponded with general perceptions of an exotic East, populated by \"primitive\" peoples devoid of civilization, a trope reinforced by numerous photographs and depictions of Siberia as an untamed natural world, later transformed and modernized by the railroads construction. Keywords: anthropology, photography, political exiles, Russian Empire, Siberia
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\What Marco Polo Forgot\: Contemporary Chinese Art Reconfigures the Global/Comments/Reply
In 1995, Cai Guo-Qiang set adrift a Chinese junk on the Grand Canal in Venice, marking the seven-hundredth anniversary of Marco Polo's return to Europe. In 2008, as the world spiraled into a far-reaching financial collapse, a historian warned that in the long haul, \"New York could turn into Venice.\" These two historical moments set the stage for a discussion of how contemporary Asian art navigates the world of conceptual geography. An anthropology of art expands beyond expertise on \"native artifacts\" corralled in Western collections to the active interpretation of contemporary art alongside artists, curators, and critics in cosmopolitan spaces of encounter. Drawing on Cai's exhibition I Want to Believe, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 2008, I focus on the contrasting interpretations of Cai's key installations, that is, the perspectives that dramatize different notions of the global. Is contemporary art the latest form of Chinese entrepreneurialism or an expression of an emerging global civil society? Or should modern Chinese art be viewed as a distinctive kind of anticipatory politics in undoing Western categories of knowledge? In an art of assemblage and juxtaposition, how is China repositioned from an object of Western knowledge to a tool of global intervention? [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Into the mainstream: Shifting authenticities in art
When artists who were once dubbed \"primitive\" find themselves operating in a freshly expanded environment, with an international clientele, new materials to work with, access to urban exhibition spaces, the counsel of culture brokers, and options for travel abroad, their response can include highly creative innovations in both the forms they produce and the interpretations they offer of their work. The new environment can sometimes even lead to adjustments in their vision of the origins and meanings of their artistic heritage. In this article, I trace the recent history of art made by Maroon men in the Guianas, following its mutation from a form of expression for internal consumption, largely as gifts for wives and lovers, to a commodity sold in an external market.
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Upside Down: Arctic Realities and Indigenous Art
This essay concerns two recent museum shows of beautiful indigenous objects artfully created by traditional Inuit, Inupiat and Yup'ik hunters -- collectively indetified as \"Eskimos\" -- ranging from Arctic from Greenland to eastern Siveria. Although the objects in each show were largely the same, the first was staged in Paris and the next in Houston. The inspiring genius behind both shows was anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, who became interested in \"primitive art\" in the 1930s. The Upside Down exhibits here under review were long foreshadowed in the writings, films, and lectures of anthropologust Carpenter. Adapted from the source document.
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Review Essay
This essay examines three feature-length works by Italian-Canadian experimental film maker Simone Rapisarda Casanova. I discuss how Rapisarda’s collaborative and process-driven methods draw from a tradition of “shared ethnographic” filmmaking advanced by Jean Rouch, but also how Rapisarda innovates this tradition through his aesthetic and technical choices.
Cet article examine trois longs métrages de la cinéaste expérimentale italo-canadienne Simone Rapisarda Casanova. Je montre comment les méthodes collaboratives et processuelles de Rapisarda s’inspirent de la tradition cinématographique « d’ethnographie partagée » proposée par Jean Rouch, mais aussi comment Rapisarda renouvelle cette tradition par ses choix esthétiques et techniques.
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