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"A Boggy, Soggy, Squitchy Picture, Truly'': Notes on Image Making in Anthropology and Elsewhere
Author(s) -
Pesmen Dale
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2000.25.2.111
Subject(s) - ethnography , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , order (exchange) , painting , anthropology , sociology , history , art history , physics , economics , finance , quantum mechanics
In order to raise questions about coherence and about aspects of ethnographic practices, this essay moves between thoughts on a passage from Melville's Moby Dick, anthropology based onfieldwork in Russia in the 1990s, and descriptions of a couple of experiments in painting.