Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture

Alison Griffiths

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Paper, 528 pages, 100 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-11697-8
$32.00 / £22.00

February, 2002
Cloth, 528 pages, 100 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-11696-1
$90.00 / £62.00

Part I: Precinema and Ethnographic Representation

1. Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator

2. Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair

3. Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology

Part II: Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture

4. The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer

5. "The World Within Your Reach'': Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation

Part III: First Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers

6. Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History

7. Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America

8. Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Film

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

Alison Griffiths is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. The work on which this book is based won the Society for Cinema Studies dissertation prize.

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