Beyond Text?

Rupert Cox is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of ManchesterAndrew Irving is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of ManchesterChristopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London

• Introduction: The sense of the senses - Rupert Cox, Andrew Irving and Christoper Wright1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations - Arnd SchneiderPHOTO-ESSAYS2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography - Patrick Sutherland3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text - Andrew Irving4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod5. Looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka - James Thompson6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing - Paul CarterSOUND7. Transplant (excerpt) - John Wynne and Tim Wainwright8. Ochlophonic Study #3: Hong Kong (excerpt) - John Levack Drever9. The Castaways ProjectSteven Feld and Virginia Ryan10. Air Pressure: a sound film - Angus Carlyle and Rupert Cox11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl - Peter Cusack12. Contest Behaviour (excerpt) - Louise K. WilsonFILM13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography - Catherine Russell14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Short Films - Jeff Daniel Silva15. Sweetgrass: 'Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet.' - Lucien Castaing-Taylor16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture - Cathy Greenhalgh17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics - Jennifer Deger18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses - David Howes19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy - Janet WolffAppendix: DVD contentsBibliographyIndex