This paper is a preliminary examination of one of the ways in which anthropologists attempted to apply photography systematically within the growing body of anthropological method during the 1860s and early 1870s. It concentrates on the “type” photograph, the main purpose of which was to illustrate the characteristics of a racial group. However, a wide…
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Visual Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Photography and Visual Culture, Cinema and Media Studies, Anthropological Studies and Insights.
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago, T&F) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Visual Anthropology 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Photography and Visual Culture Cinema and Media Studies Anthropological Studies and Insights African history and culture studies Participatory Visual Research Methods |
| ISSN | 0894-9468 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.62 |
| h-index | 33 |
| i10-index | 212 |
| Total citations | 6,778 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com |
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Analyses of humanitarian imagery generally highlight how images are used to mobilize empathy and collective action. Recent critical ethnographic accounts of humanitarianism have either disregarded or underplayed the role of race in the practice of humanitarianism, focusing on risk as crucial to a “humanitarian politics of life.” In this article I suggest that combining textual…
This paper is a brief overview of narrative, reflexive, phenomenological and scientific approaches to visual ethnography, and an examination, in more depth, of the visual ethnographic narrative. To illustrate the visual narrative I draw on photographs made as part of an ethnography of tramp life in America. The narrative in this paper is incomplete and…
Much of the photographic record of caste and tribe in India beginning in 1840 formed part of a positivist system of classification which took external characteristics encoded in the bodies of photographic subjects as indices of cultural and political characteristics. Because of the prevalence of endogamous caste groupings India was held to be uniquely suited…
In this article I discuss how visual anthropology methods are advancing in a present-day environment where applied, activist, public and interdisciplinary anthropologies are increasingly central. In earlier work [Pink 2004 Pink , Sarah 2004 Applied Visual Anthropology, a guest edited issue of Visual Anthropology Review, 20(1) . [Google Scholar], 2006 2006 The Future of Visual…