The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes

Advances in digital image processing lead to ways of representing images and image-collections that approach the linguistic properties of concision and summary. However, important logical differences remain. Indexing is a form of summary representation with problematic application to visual material...

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Autor Principal: Zeitlyn, D
Formato: Journal article
Publicado: American Anthropological Association 2006
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