Photography and Anthropology

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Prologue: Images of a Counterscience
One: The Doubled History of Photography and Anthropology
Two: The Trouble with Photography
Three: The Problem with Anthropology
Epilogue: The Holograph
References
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Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
“A masterful synthesis of his twenty years of explorations into the parallel histories of anthropology and photography, Chris Pinney’s intellectual archaeologies of image, observation, and evidence are at once deeply historical, deeply contemporary, deeply critical, and deeply provocative. I can’t imagine a more vivid blow-up of how the photographic magic of realism mirrors and shadows the anthropological realism of magic.”
“Few scholars possess the breadth and depth of understanding required to merge topics as vast as photography and anthropology. In this masterful work, Pinney draws upon his own important monographs . . . and edited works to present an engagingly idiosyncratic selection of cases and anecdotes from around the world and across literatures. . . . Essential.”
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Art: Photography
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