The Ethnographer's Eye

Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She argues for the use of vision as a critical tool with which anthropologists can address issues of knowledge and technique. The first part of the book critically examines anthropology''s history focusing on the work of key individuals--Rivers Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown--in the context of early modern art and cinema. In the book''s second part Grimshaw considers the anthropological films of Jean Rouch David and Judith MacDougall and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies.