Visual Anthropology: Photography As a

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.

Acknowledgments

xi

Foreword

xiii

Edward T. Hall

Introduction

The Challenge of Observation and the Nature of Photography

5

(10)

The Camera in the Field

15

(4)

Orientation and Rapport

19

(10)

Photographing the Overview: Mapping and Surveying

29

(16)

The Cultural Inventory

45

(20)

Photographing Technology

65

(12)

Photographing Social Circumstance and Interaction

77

(22)

Interviewing with Photographs

99

(18)

Psychological Significance and Overtones of Visual Imagery in Projective Interviewing

117

(16)

Risks to Rapport in Photographing Probing

133

(6)

Film and Video

139

(6)

Film and Video in Field Research

145

(6)

Ethnographic Film and Its Relationship to Film for Research

151

(10)

Principles of Visual Research

161

(14)

Analysis of Still and Moving Images

175

(10)

Practical Procedures in Analysis

185

(10)

Finding Patterns and Meaning

195

(8)

Making Conclusions

203

(4)

Technical Considerations in Visual Anthropology

207

References

Index

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