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Medienkultur und Ethnographie: Ein transdisziplinärer Ansatz. Mit einer Fallstudie zu Senegal
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Bielefeld: transcript (2007), 422 pp.
Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2007), ix, 324 pp.
"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co
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The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
Oxford: Berg (2006), xi, 212 pp.
"The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas
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Ethnographic Film
Austin: University of Texas Press, revised ed. (2006), xvi, 161 pp.
"Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to thi
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Media Anthropology
Thousand Oaks: Sage (2005), 350 pp.
"Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide
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Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives
New York: Routledge (2003), xiii, 313 pp.
"Global Media Studies explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline. Emphasizing the connection of globalization to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, an
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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader
Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell (2002), 416 pp.
Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.
Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony
London: Sage (1998), 208 pp.
"This book combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication. Part one is a critical review of definitions of ritual from anthropology, sociology, communication studies and other literature, ending with a theoretic
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Protokolle, Plakate und Comics: Feldforschung und Schriftdokumente
Berlin: Reimer (1998), 216 pp.
Der ethnographische Film: Einführung in Methoden und Praxis
Berlin: Reimer (1995), 293 pp.
"Zwei Aspekte stehen im Mittelpunkt der Beiträge von insgesamt zwölf Autoren: der Film als eine Methode der ethnologischen Forschung und der ethnologische Film als Forschungsgegenstand. Behandelt werden u.a. verstecktes und offenes Filmen, Verhältnis zu den Gefilmten, gegenseitige Beeinflussung,
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Principles of Visual Anthropology
Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2nd ed. (1995), xi, 562 pp.
Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-Consciousness, 1955-85
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1993), vii, 224 pp.
Die Fremden sehen: Ethnologie und Film. Anläßlich der Filmreihe 'Die Fremden sehen, Ethnologie und Film' des Filmmuseums im Münchner Stadtmuseum vom Januar bis April 1984
München: Trickster Verlag;Filmmseum München (1984), 224 pp.
Zur Publizistik schriftloser Kulturen in Nordost-Neuguinea
Steyl: Steyler Verlag (1967), 267 pp.
"Dieses Buch ist keine ethnologische Studie, und der Ethnologe wird in ihm kaum wesentlich neue Fakten entdecken. Dem Verfasser ging es hauptsächlich darum, ähnlich wie auf dem Gebiet der christlichen Publizistik der Entwicklungsländer, auch hier eine erste Erkundung zur Publizistik schriftloser
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