The Image That Never Ends: A Journey Through Visual Anthropology

This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes--ritual, kinship, and power--through the lens of contemporary visuality.

Roger Canals is an anthropologist and filmmaker, and a professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of several books, including A Goddess in Motion, Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza. (Berghahn Books, 2017). As a filmmaker, he has made several internationally awarded films like A Goddess in Motion (2016) or Chasing Shadows (2019).