Jay Ruby
Encyclopedia
Jay Ruby is an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University
until his recent retirement. He received his B.A. in History (1960) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles
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He is a leader in the field of visual anthropology
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---. Editor, Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography. Written by Paul Rotha. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1983
---. Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988
---. Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1995
---. The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer. University Park: Penn State University Press. 1999
---. Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000 (ISBN 9780226730998)
---. Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics in the Digital World.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2003
Temple University
Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
until his recent retirement. He received his B.A. in History (1960) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
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He is a leader in the field of visual anthropology
Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media...
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Fieldwork and Research
As an archaeologist, Ruby conducted excavations in the American Southwest, West Mexico and the Republic of the Sudan. As a music critic and journalist, he interviewed pop music musicians, wrote album reviews and articles for the magazine, Jazz and Pop. As an ethnographer of visual culture, he conducted long term participant-observation in Central Pennsylvania and Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago.Filmography
- A Country Auction: The Paul V. Leitzel Sale (1983)
- Can I Get A Quarter? (1983)
- Rebekah and Sophie: A Lesbian Family (2005)
- Taylor Family Portrait (2005)
- Dear Old Oak Parkers (2006)
- Oak Park Regional Housing Center (2006)
- Val (2006)
- Country Auction Study Film: Reflexive Musings (2010)
Major publications
Ruby, Jay Editor, A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1982---. Editor, Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography. Written by Paul Rotha. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1983
---. Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988
---. Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1995
---. The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer. University Park: Penn State University Press. 1999
---. Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000 (ISBN 9780226730998)
---. Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics in the Digital World.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2003