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ID2428528
AuthorsJenna Grant (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume33
Issue3
Pages349-369
Publication date2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-9262863
OpenAlexW3206766337
LanguageEN
References cited28

This article is an ethnography of color and black-and-white in medical images of a particular kind-prenatal ultrasound-in a particular place-Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is also a meditation on histories and theorizations of color. It moves from the discourse and practice of pregnant women, family members, and doctors about color and black-and-white, to political and intellectual histories of color in Cambodia and in anthropology, to Buddhist ontologies of pregnancy and life. Across this diverse terrain, the notion of the image-affect conveys how images stimulate affective responses in viewers and how images affect their referents. A method of listening to and for image-affects helps us to understand how people relate to the elemental instability of images and the instability of beings to which images refer and with which they become

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Buddhism · Ethnography · Portrait · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Communication · Gender Studies · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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