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The Ethnographer's Eye

Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

By Anna Grimshaw

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Publish Date

April 30, 2001

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

eng

Pages

236

Description:

"Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentrism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. Vision is foregrounded in the work of contemporary ethnographers, focusing more general questions about technique and epistemology in ethnographic enquiry, whether image-based media are used or not."--Jacket.