Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology by Sarah Pink (English) Paperb

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This volume examines both the range contexts in which applied visual anthropology is engaged, and the methodological and theoretical issues it raises.

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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.

Author Biography

Sarah Pink is a social anthropologist whose research includes a focus on visual methodologies and the relationship between applied and academic anthropology. Her books include Doing Visual Ethnography (2001), Home Truths (2004), Working Images (2004) and Applications of Anthropology (2005). She is Professor of Design and Emerging Technology at Monash University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsPART I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Applied Visual Anthropology: Social Intervention and Visual MethodologiesSarah PinkChapter 2. The Applied Visual Anthropology of John Collier: A Photo EssayMalcolm CollierPART II: MEDICINE AND HEALTHChapter 3. Combining the Applied, the Visual and the Medical: Patients Teaching Physicans with Visual NarrativesRichard Chalfen and Michael RichChapter 4. Steps for the Future: HIV / AIDS, Media Activism and Applied Visual Anthropology in Southern AfricaSusan LevineChapter 5. Bodywork: Social Somatic Interventions in the Operating Theatres of Invasive RadiologyChristina LammerPART III: TOURISM AND HERITAGEChapter 6. Look to Learn: A Role for Visual Ethnography in the Elimination of PovertyDianne StadhamsChapter 7. Archiving 'Heritage', Reconstructing the 'Area': Conducting Audiovisual Ethnography in EU-Sponsored ResearchVassiliki YiakoumakiPART IV: CONFLICT AND DISASTERChapter 8. Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient Applied Visual Anthropology in the 'Media Invisible' Villages of Western IndiaJayasinhji JhalaChapter 9. The Hunters Redux: Participatory and Applied Visual Anthropology with the Botswana SanMatthew DuringtonChapter 10. Sharing Anthropology: Collaborative VIdeo Experiences among Maya Film-makers in Post-war GuatemalaCarolos Y. FloresPART V: COMMUNITY FILM-MAKING AND EMPOWERMENTChapter 11. The Rhytm of Our Dreams: A Proposal for an Applied Visual AnthropologyAna Martínez PerezChapter 12. Performing Urban Collectivity: Ethnography of the Production Process of a Community-based Film Project in BrusselsAn van. DienderenPART VI: INDUSTRYChapter 13. Video Ethnography under Industrial Constraints: Observational Techniques and Video AnalysisWerner SperschneiderChapter 14. Engaging Our Audience through Photo StoriesTracey Lovejoy and Nelle SteeleNotes on ContributorsIndex

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

Review Quote

"...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

Details ISBN1845456785 Author Sarah Pink Publisher Berghahn Books Year 2009 ISBN-10 1845456785 ISBN-13 9781845456788 Format Paperback Media Book Pages 338 Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle Applied Visual Anthropology Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title VISUAL INTERVENTIONS Language English Affiliation University of Loughborough Loughborough University, UK Loughborough Un DEWEY 306 Edited by Sarah Pink Series Number 4 Publication Date 2009-09-01 UK Release Date 2009-09-01 AU Release Date 2009-09-01 NZ Release Date 2009-09-01 Audience Undergraduate Series Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology We've got this

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