Words and Pictures: comparisons between texts, captions and photos in the work Gregory Bateson's Naven doi: 10.5007/1984-8951.2010v11n99p22

Authors

  • Marialba Rita Maretti Unicamp

Abstract

This paper aims to en light questions that are related to the often problematic relationship between images and words. The relationship between textual narratives and imagery narratives which comes from different semantics though complementary ones, do not always get attention they need in Visual Anthropology is studies. Thus in order to persuie the photographic assembling which Gregory Bateson uses in his book Naven, a study of a the homonimous ceremony practiced by the New Guinea's tribe Iatmul in the mid 1930s,  three experiments will be carried out in order to compare the us age, the complementarity and the differences between texts, captions and photos.

Author Biography

Marialba Rita Maretti, Unicamp

Graduada e Licenciada em Ciências Sociais, especialista em Artes Visuais pela Unicamp e mestre em Multimeios/Antropologia Visual pela mesma universidade, mestrado realizado com auxilio fapesp.

Published

2010-11-25

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