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Visual Interventions Applied Visual Anthropology

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ISBN-10: 1845453328

ISBN-13: 9781845453329

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sarah Pink

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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.Sarah Pinkis a social anthropologist whose research includes a focus on visual methodologies and the relationship between applied and academic anthropology. Her books…    
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List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 338
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Sarah Pinknbsp;is Professor of Design and Media Ethnography at RMIT University in Australia, and Professor in Applied Social and Cultural Analysis at Halmstad University in Sweden. She is a global leader in sensory and visual ethnography. Her work is usually interdisciplinary and international, connecting anthropological ethnography to design and engineering disciplines as well as to documentary and arts practice, in projects that challenge conventional ethnographic temporalities, and bring academic scholarship to applied research problems. Sarah's other recent books include Doing Visual Ethnography (3 rd edition) (2013), Situating Everyday Life (2012) and Advances in Visual Methodology…    

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Introduction
Applied Visual Anthropology: Social Intervention and Visual Methodologies
The Applied Visual Anthropology of John Collier: A Photo Essay
Medicine and Health
Combining the Applied, the Visual and the Medical: Patients Teaching Physicians with Visual Narratives
Steps for the Future: HIV/AIDS, Media Activism and Applied Visual Anthropology in Southern Africa
Bodywork: Social Somatic Interventions in the Operating Theatres of Invasive Radiology
Tourism and Heritage
Look to Learn: A Role for Visual Ethnography in the Elimination of Poverty
Archiving 'Heritage', Reconstructing the 'Area': Conducting Audiovisual Ethnography in EU-sponsored Research
Conflict and Disaster Relief
Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient Applied Visual Anthropology in the 'Media Invisible' Villages of Western India
The Hunters Redux: Participatory and Applied Visual Anthropology with the Botswana San
Sharing Anthropology: Collaborative Video Experiences among Maya Film-makers in Post-war Guatemala
Community Film-making and Empowerment
The Rhythm of Our Dreams: A Proposal for an Applied Visual Anthropology
Performing Urban Collectivity: Ethnography of the Production Process of a Community-based Film Project in Brussels
Industry
Video Ethnography under Industrial Constraints: Observational Techniques and Video Analysis
Engaging Our Audience through Photo Stories
Index