Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-Of-The-Century Visual Culture

Alison Griffiths

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Part I: Precinema and Ethnographic Representation 1. Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator2. Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair3. Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century AnthropologyPart II: Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture 4. Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer5. The World Within Your Reach: Popular Cinema and Ethnographic RepresentationPart III: First Steps: Museum and Early Filmmakers 6. Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History7. Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America8. Conclusion: Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film

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