Christopher Pinney

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Christopher Pinney

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Pinney is an anthropologist and art historian, and Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London in the department of anthropology. He is known for his studies on the visual culture of South Asia, specifically India. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2013, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of literature.

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Christopher Pinney's Published Works

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"Photos of the Gods" : the printed image and political struggle in India (2004) (258)
Photography's Other Histories (2003) (194)
Beyond Aesthetics (2001) (113)
Pleasure and the nation: the history, politics and consumption of public culture in India (2002) (103)
Colonialism and Culture (2008) (90)
ESG Integration in Investment Management: Myths and Realities (2016) (72)
Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? (2005) (67)
The Coming of Photography in India (2008) (59)
Classification and fantasy in the photographic construction of caste and tribe (1990) (53)
Piercing the Skin of the Idol (2001) (49)
Photography and Anthropology (2011) (49)
Four Types of Visual Culture (2006) (47)
The Nation (Un)Pictured? Chromolithography and 'Popular' Politics in India, 1878-1995 (1997) (45)
Notes from the Surface of the Image (2014) (35)
Identification of Existing and New Technologies for Wheelset Condition Monitoring (2008) (30)
Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection (2009) (26)
Intraspecifîc discrimination of amphipod prey by a freshwater leech through mechanoreception (1988) (25)
CHAPTER 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism (2020) (25)
Measuring the Business Impacts of Community Involvement: The Case of Employee Volunteering at Ul (2012) (21)
On living in the kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh (1999) (20)
Future Travel: Anthropology and Cultural Distance In an Age of Virtual Reality; Or, a Past Seen From a Possible Future (1992) (19)
The prosthetic eye: photography as cure and poison (2008) (18)
Representations of India: Normalisation and the ‘Other’ (1988) (17)
A cost-effective inertial motion sensor for short-duration autonomous navigation (1994) (15)
Optic‐Clash: Modes of Visuality in India (2011) (14)
Some Indian 'Views of India': The Ethics of Representation (2003) (12)
Seven theses on photography (2012) (12)
‘A secret of their own country’: Or, how Indian nationalism made itself irrefutable (2002) (12)
Pleasure and the nation: the history, consumption and politics of public culture in India (2000) (12)
Camerawork as Technical Practice in Colonial India (2010) (11)
Indian Magical Realism: notes on popular visual culture (1998) (10)
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT), The University of Manchester: The 2011 annual debate – Non-dualism is philosophy not ethnography (2013) (10)
18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2019) (9)
Introduction: From travel writing to ethnography (1996) (9)
Economic Growth and Inequality: Why it Matters and What's Coming Next (2014) (8)
Sustainability and Capital Markets—Are We There Yet? (2019) (8)
The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology (2010) (8)
The Politics of Popular Images: From Cow Protection to M.K. Gandhi , 1890-1950 (2009) (8)
Crisis and Visual Critique (2016) (7)
The Quick and the Dead: Images, Time & Truth (1990) (7)
Civil Contract of Photography in India (2015) (6)
Hindi Cinema and Half‐Forgotten Dialects: An Interview with Ashis Nandy (1995) (6)
The Tiger's Nature, but Not the Tiger: Bal Gangadhar Tilak as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Counter-Guru (2011) (5)
Public, Popular, and Other Cultures (2001) (5)
Toward a 21st Century Social Contract (2012) (4)
Epistemo-patrimony: speaking and owning in the Indian diaspora (2011) (4)
Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India (2014) (3)
The illustrated veterinary guide for dogs, cats, birds & exotic pets (1991) (3)
Alliances for Development (2002) (3)
Cost-benefit analysis of alternative fuels and motive designs. (2013) (3)
The Iconology of Hindu Oleographs: Linear and Mythic Narrative in Popular Indian Art (1992) (3)
The Material and Visual Culture of British India (2012) (3)
What’s Photography Got To Do With It? (2013) (3)
Explanations of Itself (1990) (2)
The use of geographic information systems technology for salmon habitat analysis (1994) (2)
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (2010) (2)
Aqueous Modernism: Aqueous Modernism (2015) (2)
"To know a man from his face": Photo Wallahs and the uses of Visual Anthropology (1993) (2)
Artisan Camera: Studio Photography from Central India (2013) (2)
Prophetic pictures (2020) (2)
Hot Bricolage: Magical Mimesis in Modern India (2020) (2)
Photography's Other Histories (Objects/Histories) (2003) (1)
Augurs and Haruspices: Photographic Practices and Publics in India, 1840-2008 (2013) (1)
Application of the Out-Migrant Survival Simulator using the SWARM modeling environment to study smolt-predator interactions (1999) (1)
“It is a different nature which speaks to the camera” (2010) (1)
The Material and Visual Culture of the British Empire (2012) (1)
Locating Photography (2019) (1)
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India . By Mazzarella William. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. xi, 364 pp. $22.95 (paper). (2004) (1)
Economic Analysis of the Use of the Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) for Railroad Wheel Stress Measurement (2001) (0)
Gandhi. Camera, Action! (2014) (0)
The Currencies of Diaspora Photography (2001) (0)
I love the smell of napalm in the morning: aesthetics against society (2017) (0)
Anthropology in the New Millennium (2012) (0)
Some Indian “Views of India”: The Ethics of Representation (2020) (0)
The Line and the Curve (2012) (0)
The Image in Indian Culture (2003) (0)
Moon and Mother: Francesco Clemente’s Orient (2006) (0)
Opium, Indigo and Photography: Concerning Joachim Koester’s Nanking Restaurant (2014) (0)
Book Review: Roma Chatterji. 2012. Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (2014) (0)
Ethnographies as books: or homage to the image (1991) (0)
Water Temperature Modulation at Lower Granite Dam to Improve Adult Summer Chinook and Sockeye Salmon Passage Conversion (2015) (0)
The Burden (And Freedom) of Photography (2000) (0)
Caring for Your Older Dog (1995) (0)
Copying and De-Synchronizing: Performing the Past in Contemporary Indian Photography (2020) (0)
Coming Out Better (2010) (0)
Domestic Airport (Departures) (2013) (0)
The Bomb and the Body in Colonial India (2007) (0)
Future Travel: Anthropology and Cultural Distance in an Age of Virtual Reality Or, A Past Seen From a Possible Future (2020) (0)
Cost Benefit Analysis of Alternative Fuel and Motive Power (2013) (0)
Iter(n)ation: Gandhi's Seed (2013) (0)
What Time is the Visual? Photography and the History of the Future (2023) (0)
Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India (2020) (0)
Stirred by Photography (2013) (0)
Biography and Homoeopathy in Bengal: Colonial Lives of a European Heterodoxy Short Title: Biography and Homoeopathy in Bengal (2014) (0)
Visual Culture (2020) (0)
Karen Knorr: India Song (2015) (0)
MOVING AWAY FROM "CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE" (2002) (0)
Lionel Caplan: Class and culture in urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community, ix, 296 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1987. £30. (1991) (0)
Seminar around the film 'Gandhi's Children' by David MacDougall (2009) (0)
Horse-drawn machinery and equipment. (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection (2020) (0)
The Event of Representation (2013) (0)
Three Questions for Christopher Pinney on Photography and Anthropology (2012) (0)
Concurrent Sessions B: Case Studies of Passage at Dams - Passage Distributions and Federal Columbia River Power System Survival for Steelhead Kelts Tagged Above and at Lower Granite Dam (2013) (0)
The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages (2018) (0)
Why Asian Photography (2010) (0)
Photography in South Asia (2014) (0)
Destroying the negatives (2021) (0)
Digital Cows: Flesh and Code (2019) (0)
THE COMMON USE OF THE NOTION OF DARSHAN IN INDIA (2006) (0)
AUTHOR INDEX (2004) (0)
The British Empire. Ideology, Perspectives, Perceptions (2010) (0)
What Remains (2014) (0)
Publications Received (2003) (0)
Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western Civilization. DANIEL SEGAL (1994) (0)
Sparks of Contingency: Photography and Anthropology in India (2004) (0)
Other explanations of itself (1991) (0)

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