Visual and Media Anthropology
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Ways of Sensing
Understanding the Senses In Society
Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Hindi Cinema
Repeating the Subject
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Media and Ritual
Death, Community and Everyday Life
Series: Media, Religion and Culture
This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of...
Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
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A Host of Devils
The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture
A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique.The creation of such works is shown to connect with a regional system of knowledge and practice, within...
Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Bollywood Travels
Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Migration and New Media
Transnational Families and Polymedia
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...
Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Web 2.0
Series: Shortcuts
Web 2.0 is a highly accessible introductory text examining all the crucial discussions and issues which surround the changing nature of the World Wide Web. It not only contextualises the Web 2.0 within the history of the Web, but also goes on to explore its position within the broader dispositif of...
Published April 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere,...
Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Creative Labour
Media Work in Three Cultural Industries
Series: CRESC
What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more ‘creative’ than those in other sectors? To answer these questions, this book explores the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies. Through its close analysis of key issues - such as...
Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Awakening Visions
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies...
Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
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The Future of Visual Anthropology
Engaging the Senses
From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in the twenty-first century. The explosion of visual media in...
Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
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Working Images
Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography
Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms...
Published June 16th 2004 by Routledge
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Photographs Objects Histories
On the Materiality of Images
This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political, religious and domestic spheres, where physical...
Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
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Ritual, Performance, Media
Series: ASA Monographs
Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brings a more anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed...
Published November 5th 1997 by Routledge