Transcultural montage / edited by Christian Suhr and Rane Willerslev.
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TextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (336 pages) : color illustrationsContent type: - text
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- GN345 .T73 2013
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors--anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators--explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to restructure our basic understanding of social reality. Furthermore, as George E. Marcus suggests in the afterword, the power of montage that this volume exposes lies in its ability to open the very "combustion chamber" of social theory by juxtaposing one's claims to knowledge with the path undertaken to arrive at those claims.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
part I. Montage as an analytic -- part II. Montage in writing -- part III. Montage in film -- part IV. Montage in museum exhibitions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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