Disruptive montage has often been regarded as a potential threat to the dialogue between scholarly representations and the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories.

Introduction: Montage as an Amplifier of Invisibility Rane Willerslev and Christian Suhr Part I: Montage as an Analytic Chapter 1. Montage and Time: Deleuze, Cinema and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite Bruce Kapferer Chapter 2. Temporal Aesthetics: On Deleuzian Montage in Anthropology Morten Nielsen    Chapter 3. All the Difference in the World: Liminality, Montage and the Re-Invention of Comparative Anthropology Stuart McLean Chapter 4. Into the Gloaming: A Montage of the Senses Andrew Irving Part II: Montage in Writing Chapter 5. Being a Montage Anne Line Dalsgaard Chapter 6. Smith’s Tour Favela Paul Antick Chapter 7. Labour days: a non-linear narrative of development Nina Vohnsen Chapter 8. Mind the Gap Karen Lisa Salamon Part III: Montage in Film Chapter 9. Women in Cities: Comparative Modernities and Cinematic Space in the 1930s Catherine Russell Chapter 10. Radioglaz and the Global City: Possibilities and Constraints of Experimental Montage Julia T. S. Binter Chapter 11. Filming in the Light of Memory Alyssa Grossman Chapter 12. Montage as analysis in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking: From hunting for plots towards weaving baskets of data Jakob Kirstein Høgel Chapter 13. In Defense of Observational Cinema: The Significance of the Bazinian Turn for Ethnographic Filmmaking Anna Grimshaw Part IV: Montage in Museum Exhibitions Chapter 14. Assembling Potentials, Mounting Effects: Ethnographic Exhibitions Beyond Correspondence Peter Bjerregaard Chapter 15. Assembling Bodies: Cuts, Clusters and Juxtapositions Rebecca Empson Chapter 16. Project Villa Sovietica: Clashing Images, Expectations, and Receptions Alexandra Schüssler and Willem Mes Afterword: The Traffic in Montage, Then and Now George E. Marcus

“Transcultural Montage contains an abundance of fresh ideas in many sub-disciplines of anthropology such as medical anthropology, cognitive anthropology, cultural and economic anthropology, but also semantics, museology and knowledge production not to mention visual anthropology, the main sub-discipline to which this publication is dedicated. As one flips through the pages of this aesthetically striking edition (300 pages with more than 70 color illustrations) one stumbles upon beautiful, almost poetic accounts, photo images, self-ethnographies and descriptions of religious rituals. While reading the book one has the feeling of having a nice, handpicked collection of anthropological ideas in one’s hands.”  ·  Somatosphere.net “This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.”  ·  Martin Holbraad, University College London “This is an important, innovative, and timely collection. Edited by two creative Scandinavian anthropologists, and with contributions from an impressive mix of established and up-coming names within performative anthropology, visual anthropology, and museum anthropology among other disciplinary subfields, the volume offers a significant contribution to this and cognate disciplines, and it is bound to have a great and lasting impact.”  ·  Morten Axel Pedersen, University of Copenhagen