Visual Anthropology Review, Vol.27 No.2


Visual Anthropology Review Cover, Vol.27.2

Visual Anthropology Review Cover, Vol.27.2


Table of Contents


ARTICLES

Tattoo Removal: Three Snapshots
by Susan A. Phillips

Round Trip: Filming a Return Home
by Angela Torresan

Ravens and Film: Stories of Continuity and Mediation
by Eugenia Kisin

A Child’s Right to Participation: Photovoice as Methodology for Documenting the Experiences of Children Living in Kenyan Orphanages
by Ginger A. Johnson

“I’ll Show You My Wounds”: Engaging Suffering through Film
by Alberto Guevara and Elysée Nouvet

 

FILM REVIEWS

Many Mexicos, Vistas de la frontera. Arizona State Museum. November 19, 2010–November 17, 2012.
Michael M. Brescia (lead curator).
reviewed by: Lucero Radonic

Eating Alaska. Directed by Ellen Frankenstein, 2008, 57 minutes, color. Distributed by New Day Films, P.O. Box 1084, Harriman, NY 10926, http://www.newday.com
reviewed by: Madeline Chera

Umiaq Skin Boat. Directed by Jobie Weetaluktuk, 2008, 31 minutes, B&W and color. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse Street, Watertown, MA 02472, http://www.der.org
reviewed by: Nelson Graburn

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
reviewed by: Sharon R. Roseman

 

Global Indigenous Media: Culture, Poetics, and Politics. Edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart. ••: Duke University Press, 2008.
reviewed by: Pavel Shlossberg

Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States. Oscar G. Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, and Linda Hardberger. San Antonio: Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, U of Texas P, 2010.
reviewed by: Irene Middleton

Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologist at Work. Edited by Mary Strong and Laena Wilder. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
reviewed by: Jason E. Miller





Visual Anthropology Review Vol. 25 Issue 1 (Spring 2009)


Current Issue: Volume 25 Issue 1 (Spring 2009)
For complete listing of VAR 25 (1) contents click here.


Articles

Trafficking in Tobacco Farm Culture: Tobacco Companies’ Use of Video Imagery to Undermine Health Policy (p 1-24)
MARTIN G. OTAÑEZ, STANTON A. GLANTZ

Rural Woman and Modernity in Globalizing China: Seeing Jia Zhangke’s The World (p 25-39) ARIANNE GAETANO

The Marigold Trail: A Study of Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss (1985) (p 40-48)
SURYANANDINI SINHA

Photographic Evidence for Southern Plains Armor (p 49-65)
DANIEL J. GELO, LAWRENCE T. JONES III