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1. Visual Anthropology: Photography
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2. Cinema: A Visual Anthropology
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3. Principles of Visual Anthropology
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4. Rethinking Visual Anthropology
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5. Picturing Culture Explorations
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6. Doing Visual Ethnography
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7. Observational Cinema: Anthropology,
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8. Visualizing Anthropology: Experimenting
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9. The Future of Visual Anthropology:
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10. Working Images: Visual Research
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11. Anthropological Filmmaking: Anthropological
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12. Fields of Vision: Essays in Film
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13. Visual Methods in Social Research
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14. Visual Interventions: Applied
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15. Anthropologies of Art (Clark Studies
16. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction
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17. Vision, Race, and Modernity: A
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18. The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of
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19. Doing Visual Ethnography: Images,
 
20. Eyes across the water: The Amsterdam

1. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method
by John,Jr. Collier, Malcolm Collier
Paperback: 266 Pages (1986-10-01)
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Asin: 0826308996
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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First published in 1967, Visual Anthropology has become a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. This completely revised and expanded edition brings the technical information up to date and includes the insights the Colliers have gained from nearly thirty-five additional years of collective teaching and research experience since the first edition. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Superb
Found this by serendipity in the main map shop in Barcelona.

I am the Director of a small disability charity and the description of how the author's disabilities led to him seeing the world differently as this superb book describes and then put it into practice is awe inspiring.

Should be a core text for anyone in the caring professions so they seriously learn how to empower people by showing them how to use powerful tools to enable change.

And I note it is not referenced in the visual anthropology section of wiki!

5-0 out of 5 stars Great for getting started in Visual Anthropology.
I got this book after a long held interest in visual anthropology.Its simple informative text was very useful for those interested in getting involved with visual anthropology.It might be a little oversimplified for those who those have a stronger background than me.Lots of story examples and pictures to interpret.

5-0 out of 5 stars A great resource
I was required to buy Visual Anthropology for my Visual Sociology class my sophomore year of college.This is one i didn't sell back to the bookstore after the class was over because it is so useful.It is a great book to help a person learn how to use a camera as a research tool and get the mostout of it. ... Read more


2. Cinema: A Visual Anthropology (Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture)
by Gordon Gray
Paperback: 224 Pages (2010-03-15)
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Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the study of fiction film from around the world.
 
The book examines ways to address film and film experience beyond the study of the audience. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Cinema uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in fiction film. 
 
Including selected, global case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this most interesting and vibrant of media, Cinema will be essential reading for students of anthropology and film.
 
Edited by Marcus Banks, Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture is an innovative series of accessible texts designed for students. Each volume concisely introduces and analyses core topics in the study of visual anthropology and material culture from a distinctively anthropological perspective.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Excellent
A great introduction and reference for film, media studies, and visual anthropology students, Cinema, provides an insightful look into the world of visual culture. Comprehensive and thoughtfully written, this book covers everything from the history of the moving picture to contemporary film theory. Yet, this is not just an ordinary textbook. Gordon Gray sets up a launch pad for further exploration into an anthropological approach to media and the value of media for anthropological study. This can only help to bring something new and positive to the disciplines of media studies and anthropology. ... Read more


3. Principles of Visual Anthropology
Paperback: 562 Pages (2003-08)
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Asin: 311017930X
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This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Visual Anthropology
This is a classic and should be read by all visual anthropologists. The introduction by Margaret Mead is relevant today for anyone interested in visual anthropology and visual media. This book is a MUST READ. ... Read more


4. Rethinking Visual Anthropology
Paperback: 320 Pages (1999-04-10)
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A collection of essays by anthropologists that cover a range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, ritual, media and communication, the study of landscape, the history of anthropology, and art practice. ... Read more


5. Picturing Culture Explorations of Film and Anthropology
by Jay Ruby
Paperback: 354 Pages (2000-08-15)
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Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects.

The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner, and Tim Asch) who have striven to generate profound statements about human behavior on film. Ruby then discusses the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, the nature of ethnography, anthropological knowledge, and film and lays the groundwork for a critical approach to the field that borrows selectively from film, communication, media, and cultural studies. Witty and original, yet intensely theoretical, this collection is a major contribution to the field of visual anthropology.
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6. Doing Visual Ethnography
by Dr Sarah Pink
Paperback: 240 Pages (2006-11-21)
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Following the success of the First Edition, this fully revised and updated Second Edition of Doing Visual Ethnography explores the use and potential of photography, video, and hypermedia in ethnographic and social research. It offers a reflexive approach to theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical issues of using these media now that they are increasingly being incorporated into field research. Author Sarah Pink adopts the viewpoint that visual research methods should be rooted in a critical understanding of local and academic visual cultures, the visual media, and technologies being used and the ethical issues they raise. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Doing Visual Etnography
An excellent guide for social scientists, product developers and others who want to make observations and refletiv cultural research.

4-0 out of 5 stars Great Book- It helped me better understand ethnogrpahy!
Sarah Pink's book Doing Visual Ethnography was right on! I found her writing style a bit to get use to, howwever, after chapter 2 I was humming through her book.I especially like the chapter where she raises awareness about the ethics involved in doing a visual ethnogrpahy. I am doing a photographic ethnography for a classes at the Master's level and I felt she gave me a very thorough guide as to how to approach this semester's class. The book also , I felt, offered me a clear understanding of what I need to consider and actually have in place prior to the start of "clicking my camera" for ethnogrpahic documentation.Sarah Pink truely helped me better understand ethnographic studies.Be patient, just read and it will come to you!

2-0 out of 5 stars Mediocre
This might a case of "best in class" when the class in view is pretty darn poor. Not a great read, nor a great treatment of visual ethnography. Somebody out there has to have a better take on the subject than this. ... Read more


7. Observational Cinema: Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life
by Anna Grimshaw, Amanda Ravetz
Hardcover: 224 Pages (2009-10-27)
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Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz provide the first critical history and in-depth appraisal of this movement, examining key works, filmmakers, and theorists, from André Bazin and the Italian neorealists, to American documentary films of the 1960s, to extended discussions of the ethnographic films of Herb Di Gioia, David Hancock, and David MacDougall. They make a new case for the importance of observational work in an emerging experimental anthropology, arguing that this medium exemplifies a non-textual anthropology that is both analytically rigorous and epistemologically challenging.

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8. Visualizing Anthropology: Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography
by Amanda Ravetz
Paperback: 250 Pages (2004-10-01)
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Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live. Developing new analytical approaches toward ways of seeing is a key challenge facing those working across a wide range of disciplines. How can visuality be understood on its own terms rather than by means of established textual frameworks? Visualizing Anthropology takes up this challenge. Bringing together a range of perspectives anchored in practice, the book maps experiments in the forms and techniques of visual enquiry.

The origins of this collection lie in visual anthropology. Although the field has greatly expanded and diversified, many of the key debates continue to be focused around the textual concerns of the mainstream discipline. In seeking to establish a more genuinely visual anthropology, the editors have sought to forge links with other kinds of image-based projects. Ethnography is the shared space of practice. Understood not as a specialized method but as cultural critique, the book explores new collaborative possibilities linked to image-based work.
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9. The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the Senses
by Sarah Pink
Hardcover: 192 Pages (2006-02-14)
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From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in the twenty-first century
The explosion of visual media in recent years has generated a wide range of visual and digital technologies which have transformed visual research and analysis. The result is an exciting new interdisciplinary approach of great potential influence for the future of social/cultural anthropology.
Sarah Pink argues that this potential can be harnessed by engaging visual anthropology with its wider contexts, including:
* the increasing use of visual research methods across the social sciences and humanities
* the growth in popularity of the visual as methodology and object of analysis within mainstream anthropology and applied anthropology
* the growing interest in 'anthropology of the senses' and media anthropology
* the development of new visual technologies that allow anthropologists to work in new ways.
This book has immense interdisciplinary potential, and will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of visual anthropology, media anthropology, visual cultural studies, media studies and sociology. ... Read more


10. Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography
Paperback: 252 Pages (2004-08-13)
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The book details current themes including ethics, new technologies, and relationships between word and image. ... Read more


11. Anthropological Filmmaking: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production of Film and Video for General Public Audiences (Visual Anthropology) (Vol 1)
Paperback: 412 Pages (1988-01-01)
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12. Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography
Paperback: 362 Pages (1995-05-15)
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Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures.
From the dismembered bodies of horror film to the exotic bodies of ethnographic film and the gorgeous bodies of romantic cinema, Fields of Vision moves through eras, genres, and societies. Always asking how images work to produce meaning, the essays address the way the "real" on film creates fantasy, news, as well as "science," and considers this problematic process as cultural boundaries are crossed. One essay discusses the effects of Hollywood's high-capital, world-wide commercial hegemony on local and non-Western cinemas, while another explores the response of indigenous people in central Australia to the forces of mass media and video. Other essays uncover the work of the unconscious in cinema, the shaping of "female spectatorship" by the "women's film" genre of the 1920s, and the effects of the personal and subjective in documentary films and the photographs of war reportage.
In illuminating dark, elided, or wilfully neglected areas of representation, these essays uncover new fields of vision. ... Read more


13. Visual Methods in Social Research
by Dr Marcus Banks
Paperback: 224 Pages (2001-05-01)
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There has been an explosion of interest in visual culture - coming largely from work in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. While there are a number of practical and technical manuals available for film, photographic and other visual media, there is a dearth of writing that combines both the practical and the technical. This book redresses this with a balanced approach that is written primarily for students in the social sciences who wish to use visual materials in the course of empirical, qualitative field research. It should also be of interest to experienced researchers who wish to expand their methodological approaches.

Visual methods provides empirical approaches to both image creation and image analysis, drawing on a wide range of examples: from research conducted on Egyptian television soap opera, to the sale of ethnographic photographs in London auction houses, to pornographic images on the Web. New technologies are also included, with image digitization and computer-based multimedia extensively covered. There are sections on using film and photographic archives, and useful practical advice on publishing and presenting the results of visual research.

Marcus Banks stresses the material nature of visual media, as objects that are entangled in social relations and argues for a humanistic, engaged and reflexive approach to social research.

This book will be an indispensable guide for the use and study of social images.

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14. Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology (Studies in Applied Anthropology)
Paperback: 324 Pages (2009-10-02)
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Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, conflict and disaster relief, community filmmaking and empowerment, and industry) this volume examines both the range contexts in which applied visual anthropology is engaged, and the methodological and theoretical issues it raises. ... Read more


15. Anthropologies of Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)
Paperback: 296 Pages (2005-07-08)
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Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term “art”? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural definition of art, or are such definitions inevitably Western in their origins and concerns? What implications do the answers to these questions have for the collecting and display of Western and non-Western objects in art museums? Fourteen leading art historians and anthropologists discuss these and other questions.



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16. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials
by Dr Gillian Rose
Paperback: 304 Pages (2001-03-20)
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Visual Methodologies is an introduction to reading visual culture. It explains which methods are available to the undergraduate student and shows exactly how to use them.

The text begins with a discussion of general themes and recent debates, on the meaning of culture and the function of the visual, that offers a critical inquiry into the relation of visual images to social identities and social relations. Following chapters then go on to investigate in detail - through an integrated theoretical and applied discussion - different methods for interpreting visual images. The strengths and weaknesses of each method are discussed in relation to a detailed case study, as well as to the more general issues outlined in the introduction. These methods include:

· Compositional interpretation

· Content analysis

· Semiology

· Psychoanalysis

· Discourse analysis

· Audience analysis

An integrated primer on studying visual culture - illustrated throughout, with key terms cross-referenced and defined - Visual Methodologies will be the first reference for any undergraduate in the social sciences beginning research.

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17. Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean World
by Deborah Poole
Paperback: 272 Pages (1997-05-23)
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Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference." While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century.

Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture. ... Read more


18. The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology
by Anna Grimshaw
Paperback: 240 Pages (2001-04-30)
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Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology, attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She argues for the use of vision as a critical tool with which anthropologists can address issues of knowledge and technique. The first part of the book critically examines anthropology's history, focusing on the work of key individuals--Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown--in the context of early modern art and cinema. In the book's second part, Grimshaw considers the anthropological films of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. ... Read more


19. Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media and Representation in Research
by Dr Sarah Pink
Paperback: 208 Pages (2001-05-01)
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Doing Visual Ethnography explores the use and potential of photography, video and hypermedia in ethnographic and social research. It sets out to offer a reflexive approach to theoretical, methodological, practical and ethical issues of using these media 'in the field' and 'in the academy'.

Photography, video and electronic media are becoming increasingly incorporated into ethnographic work as 'cultural texts' demanding new approaches and research methods through which knowledge is negotiated, produced and represented.

The author adopts the viewpoint that visual research methods should be rooted in a critical understanding of local and academic visual cultures, the visual media and technologies being used and the ethical issues they raise. Doing Visual Ethnography demonstrates that these new challenges that shape ethnographic knowledge can be met by understanding the reflexivity and experience through which visual and ethnographic materials are produced and interpreted.

The book follows the research process from project design planning and implementing and practising fieldwork to analysis and representation suggesting how visual images and technologies can be combined to form an integrated process throughout the different stages of research.

Drawing from her own experience of using photography, video and hypermedia in research, as well as the work of others, the author reviews and discusses practical examples and case studies that will enable the student and researcher to embark on their own research project.

An excellent resource for students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, and those doing ethnographic and qualitative research.

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20. Eyes across the water: The Amsterdam Conference on Visual Anthropology and Sociology, 1989
 Unknown Binding: 171 Pages (1989)

Isbn: 9073052041
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