Transcultural Montage (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
Editors:	Christian Suhr • Rane Willerslev
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-85745-964-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-85745-964-3
Barcode:	9780857459640

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