Institutionalizing the unruly: Charting a future for visual anthropology

Ethnos

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-201

  Ginsburg, Faye ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnographic film; History of anthropology; Indigenous media; Visual anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933476126     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1998.9981571     Document Type: Article

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