Christopher Morton

Gebundenes Buch

The Anthropological Lens

Rethinking E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Beschreibung

A highly illustrated book exploring the work of Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, widely considered the most influential British anthropologist of the 20th century, through the lens of his fieldwork photography. It offers new insight and a major reinterpreatation of Evans-Pritchard's theoretical contributions to the discipline.

Autor

Christopher Morton is Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He trained in history at the University of East Anglia before completing a DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology at St. Antony's College, Oxford, in 2002, based on long-term fieldwork in Botswana. He has published widely on the interconnecting histories of photography and anthropology, co-editing volumes such as Photography, Anthropology, and History: Expanding the Frame (2009), Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between Art and Information (2015), and The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812913
• ISBN-10: 0198812914
• Artikelnr.: 57754013