Visual Interventions : : Applied Visual Anthropology / / ed. by Sarah Pink.

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, con...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PART I INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 APPLIED VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY Social Intervention and Visual Methodologies
  • Chapter 2 The Applied Visual Anthropology of John Collier: A Photo Essay
  • PART II MEDICINE AND HEALTH
  • Chapter 3 Combining the Applied, the Visual and the Medical: Patients Teaching Physicians with Visual Narratives
  • Chapter 4 Steps for the Future: HIV/AIDS, Media Activism and Applied Visual Anthropology in Southern Africa
  • Chapter 5 Bodywork: Social Somatic Interventions in the Operating Theatres of Invasive Radiology
  • PART III TOURISM AND HERITAGE
  • Chapter 6 Look to Learn: A Role for Visual Ethnography in the Elimination of Poverty
  • Chapter 7 Archiving ‘Heritage’, Reconstructing the ‘Area’: Conducting Audiovisual Ethnography in EU-sponsored Research
  • PART IV CONFLICT AND DISASTER RELIEF
  • Chapter 8 Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient Applied Visual Anthropology in the ‘Media Invisible’ Villages of Western India
  • Chapter 9 The Hunters Redux: Participatory and Applied Visual Anthropology with the Botswana San
  • Chapter 10 Sharing Anthropology: Collaborative Video Experiences among Maya Film-makers in Post-war Guatemala
  • PART V COMMUNITY FILM-MAKING AND EMPOWERMENT
  • Chapter 11 The Rhythm of Our Dreams: A Proposal for an Applied Visual Anthropology
  • Chapter 12 Performing Urban Collectivity: Ethnography of the Production Process of a Community-based Film Project in Brussels
  • PART VI INDUSTRY
  • Chapter 13 Video Ethnography under Industrial Constraints: Observational Techniques and Video Analysis
  • Chapter 14 Engaging Our Audience through Photo Stories
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX