RHETOR 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Visual Anthropology, Visual Concepts, Ethnography
16 Apr 2017
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The people of calicut: objects, texts, and images in the age of. Speechlessness of german artist when he saw the treasures sent by. Illustrates 2 things (1) difficulty of adequately representing material things in words, especially when compared to the possibilities of visual representation (2) problem of describing the unknown in the absence of suitable categories or concepts. 16th c saw emergence of systematic approaches to record and classify the range of observable phenomena. But it still took until 1770 for the words ethnography and. But ethnographic and other categorical generalizations have ethnology to be invented problems - decontextualization and only as good as the categories chosen for the purpose (more often than not are not adequate) The most successful genre developed in 16th c for the visual representation of the cultural diversity was the book of costumes - which exploited the ambiguity of the term habit .
