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Antinomies of representation: Anthropology as an ekphrastic process
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This article addresses a profound anthropological issue: how do representation and the represented relate? What motivates or warrants the inevitable disconnection? It is a mistake to dismiss representation as misguided, oppressive, or misleading. Representation is part of cognition generally and natural language in particular. As such it is inescapable and part of how we think and talk about the world. Moving between visual and linguistic anthropology I suggest that photographs and portraits ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.14318/hau4.3
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- Publisher:
- School of Social and Political Sciences
- Journal:
- Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory Journal website
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 341–362
- DOI:
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2049-1115
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9712
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-09
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- Copyright holder:
- David Zeitlyn
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- This work is licensed under the Creative Commons. © David Zeitlyn.
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