The Image That Never Ends
A Journey Through Visual Anthropology
Seiten
2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-237-4 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-237-4 (ISBN)
This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and power—through the lens of contemporary visuality.
We live in a time of profound transformation in the field of image and visual culture. Roger Canals redefines visual anthropology from both a theoretical and practical perspective, drawing on numerous examples from everyday life as well as insights from his own films and research. This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsider classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and power—through the lens of contemporary visuality.
We live in a time of profound transformation in the field of image and visual culture. Roger Canals redefines visual anthropology from both a theoretical and practical perspective, drawing on numerous examples from everyday life as well as insights from his own films and research. This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsider classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and power—through the lens of contemporary visuality.
Roger Canals is an anthropologist and filmmaker, and a professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of several books, including A Goddess in Motion, Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza. (Berghahn Books, 2017). As a filmmaker, he has made several internationally awarded films like A Goddess in Motion (2016) or Chasing Shadows (2019).
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Relational Image
Chapter 2. Looking Is Touching from Afar
Chapter 3. Towards a cinema of the Unexpected
Chapter 4. For an Eclectic Assemblage
Conclusion: In Favor of Images
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Bibliography; Index |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83695-237-6 / 1836952376 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83695-237-4 / 9781836952374 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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