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Beyond text?: Critical practices and sensory anthropology
Rupert Cox (Ed.)
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Description for Beyond text?: Critical practices and sensory anthropology
Hardback. Addresses a series of questions concerning the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. Editor(s): Cox, Rupert; Irving, Andrew; Wright, Christopher. Num Pages: 256 pages. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology is about the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. It suggests that if different sensory experiences embody and facilitate different kinds of knowledge, then we need to develop new methods and more creative forms of representation that are not based solely around text or on correspondence theories of truth. The volume brings together leading figures in anthropology, visual and sound studies to explore how knowledge, sensation and embodied experiences can be researched and represented by combining different visual, aural and textual forms which it demonstrates through an ... Read more
Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology is about the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. It suggests that if different sensory experiences embody and facilitate different kinds of knowledge, then we need to develop new methods and more creative forms of representation that are not based solely around text or on correspondence theories of truth. The volume brings together leading figures in anthropology, visual and sound studies to explore how knowledge, sensation and embodied experiences can be researched and represented by combining different visual, aural and textual forms which it demonstrates through an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
730g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719085055
SKU
V9780719085055
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Ref
99-15
About Rupert Cox (Ed.)
Rupert Cox is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester Andrew Irving is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of ... Read more
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