This pathbreaking book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover an entire range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, ritual, media and communication, the study of landscape, the history of anthropology, and art practice and production. 'This book will undoubtedly stand as a major landmark of the institutional direction in which 'visual anthropology' of the late 1990s is going', Paul Henley, Times Literary Supplement Contributors: Marcus Banks, Debbora Battaglia, Georgina Born, Francoise Dussart, Elizabeth Edwards, Gillian Gillison, Anna Grimshaw, Joy Hendry, Felicia Hughes-Freeland, Peter Loizos, David MacDougall, D. P. Martinez, Howard Morphy, Nicholas Thomas