Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “...there’s a great deal social researchers doing visual work can learn from Pink’s book…It’s a valuable resource for researchers, activists, and social service workers looking for innovative visual methodologies for collaborative research and social intervention. It makes an excellent contribution to the ongoing academic debate over the value of applied and visual social research, as well.” · Contexts, Magazine of the American Sociological Association
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Applied Visual Anthropology: Social Intervention and Visual Methodologies
Sarah Pink
Chapter 2. The Applied Visual Anthropology of John Collier: A Photo Essay
Malcolm Collier
PART II: MEDICINE AND HEALTH
Chapter 3. Combining the Applied, the Visual and the Medical: Patients Teaching Physicans with Visual Narratives
Richard Chalfen and Michael Rich
Chapter 4. Steps for the Future: HIV / AIDS, Media Activism and Applied Visual Anthropology in Southern Africa
Susan Levine
Chapter 5. Bodywork: Social Somatic Interventions in the Operating Theatres of Invasive Radiology
Christina Lammer
PART III: TOURISM AND HERITAGE
Chapter 6. Look to Learn: A Role for Visual Ethnography in the Elimination of Poverty
Dianne Stadhams
Chapter 7. Archiving 'Heritage', Reconstructing the 'Area': Conducting Audiovisual Ethnography in EU-Sponsored Research
Vassiliki Yiakoumaki
PART IV: CONFLICT AND DISASTER
Chapter 8. Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient Applied Visual Anthropology in the 'Media Invisible' Villages of Western India
Jayasinhji Jhala
Chapter 9. The Hunters Redux: Participatory and Applied Visual Anthropology with the Botswana San
Matthew Durington
Chapter 10. Sharing Anthropology: Collaborative VIdeo Experiences among Maya Film-makers in Post-war Guatemala
Carolos Y. Flores
PART V: COMMUNITY FILM-MAKING AND EMPOWERMENT
Chapter 11. The Rhytm of Our Dreams: A Proposal for an Applied Visual Anthropology
Ana Martínez Perez
Chapter 12. Performing Urban Collectivity: Ethnography of the Production Process of a Community-based Film Project in Brussels
An van. Dienderen
PART VI: INDUSTRY
Chapter 13. Video Ethnography under Industrial Constraints: Observational Techniques and Video Analysis
Werner Sperschneider
Chapter 14. Engaging Our Audience through Photo Stories
Tracey Lovejoy and Nelle Steele
Notes on Contributors
Index
