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As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. 'Collaborative Anthropology Today' is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book is the latest in a trilogy that includes 'Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be' and 'Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be.' Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus assemble several notable ventures in collaborative anthropology and put them in dialogue with one another as a way of exploring the recent surge of interest in creating new kinds of ethnographic and theoretical partnerships, especially in the domains of art, media, and information.

Anthropology --- Group work in research. --- Interdisciplinary research. --- Methodology. --- multimodal anthropology, experimental anthropology, anthropology of media, Collaborative analytics. --- Group work in research --- Interdisciplinary research --- Methodology

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A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, An Anthropology of Images presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function.The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of compelling case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.

Ethnology in art. --- Visual anthropology. --- Visual sociology. --- Alex Katz. --- Allegory. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anthropology of art. --- Anthropology of media. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Archaeology. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Art. --- Body image. --- Camera Work. --- Camera. --- Case study. --- Close-up. --- Coat of arms. --- Conceptual art. --- Consciousness. --- Countermovement. --- Creation myth. --- Creative work. --- Cultural anthropology. --- Cultural geography. --- Cultural heritage. --- Cultural history. --- Cultural memory. --- Dichotomy. --- Emblem. --- Emerging technologies. --- Escutcheon (heraldry). --- Explanation. --- Film theory. --- Fine art. --- Funerary art. --- Genre. --- Georges Bataille. --- Gudea. --- Historical anthropology. --- Historicity. --- Historiography. --- Human figure (aesthetics). --- Humanism. --- Humanities. --- Iconicity. --- Iconoclasm. --- Iconography. --- Iconology. --- Illustration. --- Imagery. --- Inference. --- Intentionality. --- Invention. --- Mark So. --- Masaccio. --- Medium theory. --- Mental image. --- Metaphor. --- Metonymy. --- Modernity. --- Necromancy. --- Neuromancer. --- On Photography. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Photogram. --- Photograph. --- Photography. --- Photojournalism. --- Physiognomy. --- Pictorialism. --- Pigment. --- Primitive culture. --- Primitivism. --- Propaganda. --- Provenance. --- Religious image. --- Reproducibility. --- Secularization. --- Semiotics. --- Sightline. --- Simulacrum. --- Social anthropology. --- Special effect. --- Special rights. --- Structural anthropology. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Symptom. --- Technology. --- Terminology. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Uniqueness. --- Visual artifact. --- Visual arts. --- Visual culture. --- Visual rhetoric. --- Work of art. --- Writing.