Wondrous Difference

Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture

By: Alison Griffiths

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Hardcover | 6 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Featuring more than 100 illustrations, the book examines museums of natural history, world's fairs, scientific and popular photography, and the early filmmaking efforts of anthropologists and commercial producers to investigate how cinema came to assume the role of mediator of cultural difference at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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A significant contribution to knowledge about methods of recording and presenting visual culture of non-Western peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Choice With fascinating examples and illustrations culled from a number of international archives,Wondrous Difference is an invaluable resource for cinema historians, anthropologists, archivists, and museum professionals... Griffiths is working within a new tradition of scholars approaching visuality with a historically integrated and culturally critical perspective... The masterful way in which Griffiths navigates and reveals the complexity of these relationships sets a standard for others to follow. -- Amy J. Staples Film Quarterly Wondrous Difference will make an excellent... textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in both visual anthropology and the history of anthropology. -- Deborah Poole Current Anthropology

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Illustrations	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Precinema and Ethnographic Representation
Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator	p. 3
Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair	p. 46
Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology	p. 86
Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture
The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer	p. 127
"The World Within Your Reach": Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation	p. 171
First Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers
Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History	p. 255
Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America	p. 283
Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film	p. 312
Notes	p. 331
Filmography	p. 415
Bibliography	p. 421
Index	p. 451
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