Transcultural Montage Transcultural Montage

Transcultural Montage

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2013
October 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
300
Pages
PUBLISHER
Berghahn Books
SELLER
Ingram DV LLC
SIZE
6.2
MB
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