Exploring Society Photographically

104 Pages·1981·6.522 MB·English

by  Howard S. Becker

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Exploring Society Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis, Gregory Bateson
Photographically is published and Margaret Mead, copyright 1942, The New York Academy of
to accompany an exhibition of Sciences. Material from Balinese Character used with the permis¬
the same title on view at the sion of The New York Academy of Sciences. Cardens of War,
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Robert Gardner and Karl G. Heider, copyright 1968, The Film Study
October 16 through November Center, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Photographs by
29, 1981. Frank Cancian used with his permission. Photographs by John
Collier Jr. used with his permission. Killing Time: Life in the
© Copyright 1981, Mary and Arkansas Penitentiary, Bruce Jackson, copyright 1977, Cornell Uni¬
Leigh Block Gallery, versity Press, used with the permission of Cornell University Press
Northwestern University and Bruce Jackson. Photographs by Douglas A. Harper are taken
Library of Congress Catalogue from Good Company: A Tramp Life by Douglas A. Harper, to be
Card Number: 81-83668 published in Spring 1982 by The University of Chicago Press,
ISBN 0-941680-00-2 © 1981 by Douglas A. Harper. All rights reserved. The text for
"Selections from the Road" is excerpted from Good Company: A
Tramp Life by Douglas A. Harper, to be published in Spring 1982
Exploring Society by The University of Chicago Press. © 1981 by The University of
Photographically is distributed by Chicago. All rights reserved. Photographs by Karin B. Ohrn
The University of Chicago Press used with her permission. Text by Richard Horwitz used with his
permission. Photographs by Bill Aron used with his permission.
Printed in the United States of Material from PATIENTS: The Experience of Illness, Mark L.
America Rosenberg, MD, reproduced with the kind permission of The
Printer: Congress Printing Saunders Press, Philadelphia, copyright 1980 by W. B. Saunders
Company Company. Photographs by Euan Duff used with his permission.
Photographs by Charles Berger used with his permission.
Design: Hayward Blake &
Company
Composition: Automated
Office Systems, Inc.
Exploring Society Cover illustrations: Details from Balinese Character: A
Photographically is supported Photographic Analysis by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead.
by funds from Northwestern
University, the Mary and Leigh
Block Gallery Friends of Art, a
grant from the Illinois Arts
Council, a State agency, and a
grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts, a
Federal agency.
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Howard S. Becker
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
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Foreword 6
Kathy Kelsey Foley
Introduction g
Floward 5. Becker
Balinese Character 12
Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
Cardens of War is
Harvard University, Film Study Center
Joel Bruinooge: The Experience of Illness 24
Mark L. Rosenberg, MD
The People in Between 32
John Collier \r.
Killing Time 40
Bruce Jackson
Two Views of Venice, California 46
Bill Aron
Two Rituals of the Xingu 54
Eduardo B. Viveiros de Castro
Mac's and Mil's 60
Karin B. Ohrn and Richard P. Horwitz
Flamenco Gitano: A Palo Seco 68
Charles Berger
Working World 74
Euan Duff
Law in Zinacantan, Mexico 80
Frank Cancian
Selections from the Road 86
Douglas A. Harper
Bibliography 9 4
The idea of organizing an exhibition devoted to the photo¬
graphic work of visual sociologists and anthropologists was
first presented to me by Howard Becker, Professor of Soci¬
ology, in fall 1979. I spent time becoming familiar with the
material and quickly learned that the world of the social
scientist, particularly when photography is the research
tool, is indeed most fascinating. Exploring Society
Photographically thus developed and Professor Becker be¬
gan his search for significant scientific, artistic, and cultural
projects to include in the exhibition and in this publication.
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