Transcultural montage
Christian Suhr (Editor), Rane Willerslev (Editor)
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
1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations
9780857459657, 9781306690386, 0857459651, 1306690382
871775800
Print version:
Part I. Montage as an analytic
part II. Montage in writing
part III. Montage in film
part IV. Montage in museum exhibitions