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The fear of the visual? : photography, anthropology, and anxieties of seeing / Sasanka Perera.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hyderabad, Telangana, India : Orient BlackSwan, 2020Description: xvi, 280 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789352879953
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 778.99301 PER 022116
Contents:
From recollections of biography to initial thoughts on photography -- Imperial power, colonial image-making and photography -- The shadows of two histories : anthropology and photography -- 'Selfies' and the meanings of the self -- Framing and performing intimacy : an incomplete social history of wedding photographs -- Why visual anthropology and visual sociology? -- Potography, research, and the liminality of ethics in contemporary times -- Photography as a 'fleeting, casual and unthinking' practice -- Fear of the visual? : power of 'writing' in anthropology and the eclipse of photography.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 778.99301 PER 022116 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 022116
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778.94 TOR 020111 Cities and photography / 778.945409034 TRA 007332 Traces of India : 778.9907049 BEN DS0233 National geographic : the photographs / 778.99301 PER 022116 The fear of the visual? : photography, anthropology, and anxieties of seeing / 779 MOR 014808 Summer's children : 779​.074074746 SZA 013610 Looking at photographs : 779.07454 PRO 008764 Projections /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-267) and index.

From recollections of biography to initial thoughts on photography -- Imperial power, colonial image-making and photography -- The shadows of two histories : anthropology and photography -- 'Selfies' and the meanings of the self -- Framing and performing intimacy : an incomplete social history of wedding photographs -- Why visual anthropology and visual sociology? -- Potography, research, and the liminality of ethics in contemporary times -- Photography as a 'fleeting, casual and unthinking' practice -- Fear of the visual? : power of 'writing' in anthropology and the eclipse of photography.

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