Visualizing Theory. Selected Essays From V.A.R. (Visual Anthropology Review) 1990-1994.

Texts :
PART I. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC AND THE IPSOGRAPHIC :
1. Eliot Weinberger: The Camera People ;
2. David MacDougall: Whose Story Is It? ;
3. George Marcus: The Modernist Sensibility in Recent
Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage ;
4. Annette Weiner: Trobianders on Camera and Off ;
5. Bill Nichols: The Ethnographer's Tale ;
6. Paul Stoller: Artaud, Rouch, and the Cinema of Cruelty ;
7. Dean MacCannell: Cannibal Tours ;
8. Henrietta Moore: Trinh T. Minh-ha Observed: Anthropology and Others ;
9. Rachel Moore: Marketing Alterity ;
PART II. SURREALISM, VISION, AND CULTURAL CRITICISM :
10. Susan Suleiman: Between the Street and the salon: The
Dilemma of Surrealist Politics in the 1930's ;
11. Hal Foster: Exquisite Corpses ;
12. Martin Jay: The Disenchantement of the Eye: Surrealism and
the Crisis of Ocularcentrism ;
PART III. MODERNITY'S MEDIATIONS: THE SCOPIC AND THE HAPTIC :
13. Michael Taussig: Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds ;
14. C. Seremetakis: The Memory of Senses: Historical
Perceptuin, Commensal Exchange, and Modernity ;
15. Victor Burgin: Paranoiac Space ;
16. Marilyn Strathern: One-Legged Gender ;
17. Ludmilla Jordanova: The Hand ;
18. David MacDougall: Films of Memory ;
19. David Tomas: Manufacturing Vision ;
20. Marc Blanchard: Post-Bourgeois Tattoo: Reflections on Skin
Writing in Late Capitalist Societies ;
21. Elizabeth Traube: Family Matters: Postfeminist
Constructions of a Contested Site ;
22. Peter Redfield: Remembering the Revolution, Forgetting the
Empire: Notes after the French Bicentennial ;
23. Bennetta Jules-Rosette: Simulations of Postmodernity:
Images of Technology in African Tourist and Popular Art ;
24. Lutz / Collins: The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes:
The Example of National Geographic ;
25. Alan Macfarlane: BBC Domesday: The Social Construction of
Britain on Videodisc ;
26. Christopher Pinney: Future Travel ;
PART IV. VISUALIZING THEORY : "IN DIALOGUE" :
27. Chen / Minh-ha: Speaking Nearby ;
28. Bhabha / Burgin: Visualizing Theory.