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Visual Anthropology Template

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About the Visual Anthropology format

Visual Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Photography and Visual Culture, Cinema and Media Studies, Anthropological Studies and Insights.

PublisherTaylor & Francis
Reference styleAuthor–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 inPhotography and Visual Culture Cinema and Media Studies Anthropological Studies and Insights African history and culture studies Participatory Visual Research Methods
ISSN0894-9468
Citation impact (2-yr)0.62
h-index33
i10-index212
Total citations6,778
Top institutions publishing hereSchlumberger (Ireland)
Journal websitewww.tandfonline.com
You getA submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit.

Papers published in Visual Anthropology per year

27
2014
47
2015
26
2016
42
2017
43
2018
32
2019
35
2020
35
2021
32
2022
35
2023
33
2024
17
2025

Citation impact of Visual Anthropology by publication year

185
2014
159
2015
306
2016
138
2017
228
2018
113
2019
76
2020
43
2021
35
2022
42
2023
30
2024
3
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Visual Anthropology

Photographic “types”: The pursuit of method

Elizabeth Edwards · 1 Jan 1990

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…

Risky Business: Race, Nonequivalence and the Humanitarian Politics of Life

Adia Benton · 6 Feb 2016

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…

The visual ethnographic narrative<sup>1</sup>

Douglas Harper · 1 Nov 1987

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…

Classification and fantasy in the photographic construction of caste and tribe

Christopher Pinney · 1 Jan 1990

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…

Images, Senses and Applications: Engaging Visual Anthropology

Sarah Pink · 1 Oct 2011

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…

Visual Anthropology template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Visual Anthropology format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Visual Anthropology template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Taylor & Francis format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Visual Anthropology use?
Visual Anthropology uses Author–year (Chicago, T&F) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Visual Anthropology 12 (3): 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Visual Anthropology?
No. DocuGuru generates the interact LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Taylor & Francis-ready Visual Anthropology document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Visual Anthropology template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Visual Anthropology format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Visual Anthropology?
Visual Anthropology is a multidisciplinary journal published by Taylor & Francis. DocuGuru's Visual Anthropology template matches Taylor & Francis's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Visual Anthropology PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Visual Anthropology template (the interact class) that is ready to submit to Taylor & Francis, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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