Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture
The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Featuring more than 100 illustrations, the book...
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This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures.
AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPt. IPrecinema and Ethnographic Representation1Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator32Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair463Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology86Pt. IIEarly Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture4The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer1275"The World Within Your Reach": Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation171Pt. IIIFirst Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers6Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History2557Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America2838Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film312Notes331Filmography415Bibliography421Index451
\ Current Anthropology - Deborah Poole\ Wondrous Difference will make an excellent... textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in both visual anthropology and the history of anthropology.\ \ \ \ \ \ Current AnthropologyWondrous Difference will make an excellent... textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in both visual anthropology and the history of anthropology.\ — Deborah Poole\ \ \ \ Film QuarterlyWith fascinating examples and illustrations culled from a number of international archives, Wondrous Difference is an invaluable resource for cinema historians, anthropologists, archivists, and museum professionals.... Griffiths is working within a new tradition of scholars approaching visuality with a historically integrated and culturally critical perspective.... The masterful way in which Griffiths navigates and reveals the complexity of these relationships sets a standard for others to follow.\ \ \ \ \ \ ChoiceA significant contribution to knowledge about methods of recording and presenting visual culture of non-Western peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.\ \ \ \ \ \ Film QuarterlyWith fascinating examples and illustrations culled from a number of international archives, Wondrous Difference is an invaluable resource for cinema historians, anthropologists, archivists, and museum professionals.... Griffiths is working within a new tradition of scholars approaching visuality with a historically integrated and culturally critical perspective.... The masterful way in which Griffiths navigates and reveals the complexity of these relationships sets a standard for others to follow.\ — Amy J. Staples\ \ \
