Annotation: Poole, Deborah. 2005. An Excess of Description

Poole, Deborah. 2005. An Excess of Description: Ethnography, Race, and Visual Technologies. Annual Review of Anthropology, (34):159–79. The article presents a historical overview of visual anthropology, arguing that it has increasingly abandoned the idea of visual technologies as inherently racializing or objectifying, and it has also moved away from the question of representation (contingent moment, …