{"product_id":"9781861898043","title":"Photography and Anthropology","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePhotography and Anthropology, \u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Pinney presents a provocative and readable account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography “make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable,” and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice that prompted anthropologists to capture the “primitive” lives of those they studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly anthropology celebrated photography as a physical record, whose authority and permanence promised an escape from the lack of certainty in speech. But later anthropologists faulted photography for failing to capture movement and process. Anthropology as a practice of “being there” has thus found itself entwined in an intimate engagement with photography as metaphor for the collection of evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough numerous examples from the annals of anthropological photography, \u003ci\u003ePhotography and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e examines the history of anthropology’s enchantment with photography alongside the anthropological theory of photography and documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057496441072,"sku":"9781861898043","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861898043_p0.jpg?v=1763600994","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861898043","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}