New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780367011925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Rosalind Morris

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Bringing together the insights of literary criticism, film theory, history, and anthropology, this book explores the tradition of ethnographic film on the Northwest Coast and its relationship to the ethnography of the area. Rosalind Morris takes account of these films, organizing her discussions around a series of detailed readings and viewings tha

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Preface and Acknowledgments -- Preview: “Persistence of Vision” -- Through a Glass Darkly: Terms and Problems for Analysis -- Celluloid Savages: Salvage Ethnography and the Narration of Disappearance -- Totems and the Potlatch People: Absence, Presence, and the Denial of History -- Remembering: The Narratives of Renewal -- Wider Angles: Toward a Conclusion

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Rosalind C. Morris is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at The University of Chicago. She conducted research on ritual theater and cultural politics in Northern Thailand and is currently writing her dissertation. A graduate of the New York Film Academy, she lives in New York.