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Mass communications --- Visual sociology --- Visual perception --- Visual anthropology --- Sociologie visuelle --- Perception visuelle --- Anthropologie visuelle --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Visual anthropology. --- Visual perception. --- Visual sociology. --- Beeldcultuur. --- Beeldcommunicatie. --- Arts and Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Architecture, Fine and Decorative Arts --- General and Others --- Society and Culture --- Museums & Heritage Organizations --- Sociology --- 77 <05> --- Fotografie--Tijdschriften --- Periodicals --- 77 <05> Fotografie--Tijdschriften --- Visual Sociology. --- Visual Anthropology. --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Psychological aspects --- Visual communication --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Ethnology

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The art of life and death" explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an "experience-near" ethnographic focus to the streams of inner dialogue, imagination, and aesthetic expression that are central to the experience of illness and everyday life, this monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the human condition. With relevance well-beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of capturing the inner experience of human suffering and hope that affect us all of the trauma of the threat of death and the surprise of continued life.

Death. --- Death --- Visual anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- mortality --- AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) --- psychologie van leven en dood --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ethnology

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From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs. In the 1920s John Ernest Williamson in the Bahamas and Frank Hurley in Australia produced mass-circulated and often highly staged photographs and films that cast corals as industrious, colonizing creatures, and the undersea as a virgin, unexplored, and fantastical territory. In *Coral Empire* Ann Elias traces the visual and social history of Williamson and Hurley and how their modern media spectacles yoked the tropics and coral reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature. Using the labor and knowledge of indigenous peoples while exoticizing and racializing them as inferior Others, Williamson and Hurley sustained colonial fantasies about people of color and the environment as endless resources to be plundered. As Elias demonstrates, their reckless treatment of the sea prefigured attitudes that caused the environmental crises that the oceans and reefs now face.

Coral reefs and islands --- Underwater exploration --- Underwater photography --- Ethnology --- Visual anthropology. --- Other (Philosophy) --- Récifs coralliens --- Exploration sous-marine --- Photographie sous-marine --- Ethnologie --- Anthropologie visuelle. --- Altérité (philosophie) --- Research. --- History --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Recherche. --- Histoire --- Aspect environnemental. --- Aspect social. --- Williamson, J. E. --- Hurley, Frank, --- Williamson, J. Ernest --- Hurley, Frank --- underwater photography --- coral reefs --- Williamson, John Ernest --- Récifs coralliens --- Altérité (philosophie)