Anna Grimshaw teaches in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta. She read social anthropology at Cambridge and while completing her doctorate was employed as a researcher for Granada Television. Later she became assistant to the West Indian writer and revolutionary C.L.R. James. Following James's death, Anna returned to anthropology, taking up a position at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her publications include The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2001 and Visualizing Anthropology: Experiments in Image Based Practice, Bristol: Intellect Books, 2005 (co-edited with Amanda Ravetz).
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Liesbeth Bik, Bryony Bond, Mary Bouquet, David Chapman, Ade Hunter, Rosalind Nashashibi, Daniel Peltz, Amanda Ravetz, Paul Rooney, Erika Tan, Lucien Taylor, Jos van der Pol, Soumhya Venkatesan, Chris Wright and Lesley YoungGo to Anna Grimshaw’s object presented on Day One