The Fear of the Visual?: Photography, Anthropology, and Anxieties of Seeing

by Sasanka Perera

Photography had played a central role in the emergence of anthropology as a discipline in the late colonial period. Despite this, why is it that photography is not taken seriously in contemporary mainstream social anthropology and sociology in South asia and, to a great extent, in the rest of the worlds a possible way of conducting research or as an object of research? The fear of the visual? Explores this Question through a study of the histories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9352879953
• ISBN13: 9789352879953
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
• Length: 296 Pages
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.9" x 9.8"