Los Angeles: SAGE, 2007. — 160 p. List of illustrations. Editorial introduction (Uwe Flick). About this book (Uwe Flick). The place of visual data in social research: a brief history. Approaches to studying the visual. Visual methods and field research. Presenting visual research. Conclusion: images and social research. Notes. Author index. Subject index.
Los Angeles: SAGE, 2001. — 219 p.
This book aims to provide a brief account of some of the ways in which social scientists can incorporate visual images (of various kinds) into their research, together with a discussion of why they might wish to. The emphasis is very much on the use of visual materials as one among
several research methods that may be employed by a social...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 319 p.
This pathbreaking book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover an entire range of visual representation. From Balinese television, to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology og art, rital, media and communication, the study of landscape, the history of anthropology, the art practice, and...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN 9780747599579 As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the...
BERG, Oxford, 2012. - 257 p. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Museums in the Twenty-first Century. Stretching the National Museum. A History of Ethnographic Museums. The Ethnography of Museums. Practices of Object Display. Object and Image Repatriation. Afterword: Teylers Revisited. Notes.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. — 268 p. Foreword. The Challenge of Observation and the. Nature of Photography. The Camera in the Field. Orientation and Rapport. Photographing the Overview: Mapping and Surveying. The Cultural Inventory. Photographing Technology. Photographing Social Circumstance and Interaction. Interviewing with Photographs. Psychological...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. — 164 p.
This book provides reliable research methods from the systematic gathering of data through analysis of photographic records to transfer of insights to ethnographic records, with an emphasis on developing the skills of thorough observation rather than on technical skill.
London: Routledge, 2003. — 173 p. Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behaviour for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual,...
Dundurn, 2004. — 192 p. John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic and the Arctic. Faces of the North presents a record of...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. — 271 p.: ill. — ISBN: 0-19-828013-0. In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. As a theory of the nexus of social relations involving works of art, this work suggests that in certain contexts, art-objects substitute for persons...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 242 p. Visualizing anthropology. Acknowledgements. The modernist moment and after, 1895-1945. Anxious visions: Rivers, Cubism and anthropological modernism. The innocent eye: Flaherty, Malinowski and the rom antic quest. The light of reason: John Grierson, Radcliffe-Brown and the enlightenment project. Anthropological visions. Cinema and...
Bristol: Intellect, 2004. — 174 p.
Visualizing Anthropology has its origins in a convergence of interests and series of collaborations that developed at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. As lecturers at the Centre we had become concerned about the types of visual practice that constituted the contemporary field. We were aware from our own...
Revised Edition — University of Texas Press, 2006. — 178 p. Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to this field of visual...
Beyond Words, 2005. — 424 p. A photographic celebration of America's ethnic diversity documents the customs, dress, and cultures of thirty groups currently residing in the U.S., including the Irish, Russians, Cubans, Native Americans, and Eskimos. America is a nation of immigrants. Even the ancestors of the Native Americans migrated across the Bering Straight thousands of years...
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. — 594 p.
This book was originally developed for and by the anthropologists of the world, as was described in the original Preface. Its popularity - far exceeding that of any of the other ninety books in the World Antropology series, prooved that anthropology had indeed suffered to long a serious vacuum. The appearence of a revised edition of...
International Society for Educational Information Press, 1972. — 100 p. Japan Through Pictures. A Selection from the Fourth Photo Contest: The Faces of a Country and of her People. We are very happy to present this issue of Understanding Japan, "The Faces of a Country and her People." Ever since the Society initiated our annual nationwide amateur photography contest, with the aim...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 306 p. This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in "Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia", the first film series on psychiatric disorders in the developing world, in order...
Routledge, 2003. — 328 p. Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes 'The...
Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011. — 777 p.
It is intended as a guide for those new to the field, and interested in designing visual research projects, but also as a companion for seasoned visual researchers. We expect readers to come from across the academic spectrum: sociology, anthropology, psychology, communication,
media studies, education, cultural studies, journalism, health,...
George Braziller, 2007. — 156 p. "Look Close, See Far" uses photography and essays to create a cultural portrait of the Maya Indians. Respected scholars introduce these indigenous communities of Central America and their ancient and complex spiritual, cultural, artistic, and architectural traditions. One hundred stunning black and white photographs document the remaining...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. — 272 p.
Race and Photography studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the “science of race,” what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enabled not just new forms of documentation but new forms of perception. Foregoing the...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 352 p. List of figures page. Remodeling visual social science. The visual researcher as collector and interpreter. The visual researcher as producer, facilitator. and communicator. Applications / case studies. Visual research in a wider perspective.
Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2009. — 184 p.
In this important and groundbreaking book, Sarah Pink suggests re-thinking the ethnographic process through reflexive attention to what she terms the 'sensoriality' of the experience, practice, and knowledge of both researchers and those who participate in their research. The book provides an accessible analysis of the theoretical,...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 182 p. List of figures. Acknowledgements. Situating visual anthropology. Engaging the visual: an introduction. Interdisciplinary agendas: (re)situating visual anthropology. Visual anthropology and the mainstream. New sensations?: visual anthropology and the senses. Visual anthropology and anthropological writing: the case of the sensory home. Engaging...
4th Edition. — SAGE Publications, 2021. — 304 p. This book is the definitive guide to understanding and doing visual ethnography. Sarah Pink’s landmark text provides you with both the critical theoretical foundations and the creative tools and techniques you need to conduct your own visual ethnography. Covering the material and the digital, and tying key concepts and ideas to...
Modern Academic Publishing, 2018. — 362 p. — ISBN: 9783946198390; 9783946198369; 9783946198376; 9783941698383. An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels--one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley--the research is...
Sage Publications, London, 2001. - 240 p. list of figures. acknowledgements. introducing this book. researching visual materials: towards a critical visual. methodology. `the good eye': looking at pictures using compositional. interpretation. content analysis: counting what you (think you) see. semiology: laying bare the prejudices beneath the smooth. surface of the beautiful....
Routledge, 1997. — 290 p. First published in 1993. "John Marshall's lively and forthright style makes gripping reading, reflecting his own personal character. Marshall presents his heartfelt methodology for making anthropologically and socially meaningful films, and the book offers a unique and multidimensional view of the work of a pioneering filmmaker." — Allison Jablonko of...
М.: ОГИ, 2005. — 214, [2] с.: ил. — (Нация и культура: Новые исследования: Антропология). — ISBN: 5-94282-161-5. Книга Гасана Гусейнова посвящена картам России. Но это книга не о физической и не об экономической, а скорее о символической географии. Почему мы регулярно встречаем изображения карты России и СССР на предвыборных плакатах, в газетных карикатурах, на татуировках и т....
Саарбрюккен: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. — 101 с. — ISBN: 978-3-659-58147-2. Предметом настоящего исследования является отношение современных последователей культуры ислама к двухмерным антропоморфным изображениям, фотографии, и способы включения таких изображений в сложившуюся религиозную традицию. Введение Понимание недопустимого в культурах авраамистических религий и...
Владивосток: Дальневосточный федеральный университет, 2014. — 304 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7444-3082-5. Книга содержит иллюстрации (почтовые открытки, фотографии, рисунки), терминологический словарь плотов, катамаранов и лодок, используемых многими народами мира в повседневной жизни. Лодки буквально «законсервировались» в своей традиционной форме, позволяя на деле проверить и принять...
М.: Вариант; ЦСПГИ, 2009. — 296 с. — (Библиотека «Журнала исследований социальной политики»). — ISBN: 978-5-903360-20-8. Область современной визуальной антропологии включает интерпретацию визуальных артефактов как культурных феноменов, анализ контекстов их производства и использования, а также изучение социальной жизни с применением визуальных методов. Кому принадлежит право...
М.: Вариант, ЦСПГИ, 2009. — 448 с. — (Библиотека Журнала исследований социальной политики). — ISBN: 978-5-903360-25-3. Визуальные воплощения мужественности и женственности, бедности и несправедливости, нужды и порядка, заботы и контроля в плакате, кинофильме, фотографии и содержательно, и формально связаны с тем временем, когда создаются изображения. Востребованные другими...
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