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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
eBook, English, 2013
Berghahn Books, New York, NY, 2013
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