• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Visual Interventions : Applied Visual Anthropology
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Chalfen, Richard [MitwirkendeR]; Collier, Malcolm [MitwirkendeR]; Dienderen, An van. [MitwirkendeR]; Durington, Matthew [MitwirkendeR]; Flores, Carlos Y. [MitwirkendeR]; Jhala, Jayasinhji [MitwirkendeR]; Lammer, Christina [MitwirkendeR]; Levine, Susan [MitwirkendeR]; Lovejoy, Tracey [MitwirkendeR]; Martínez Pérez, Ana [MitwirkendeR]; Pink, Sarah [MitwirkendeR]; Pink, Sarah [HerausgeberIn]; Rich, Michael [MitwirkendeR]; Sperschneider, Werner [MitwirkendeR]; Stadhams, Dianne [MitwirkendeR]; Steele, Nelle [MitwirkendeR]; Yiakoumaki, Vassiliki [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2007]
  • Published in: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 4
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (336 Seiten)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780857455802
  • ISBN: 9780857455802
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  • Keywords: Applied anthropology Methodology ; Applied anthropology Philosophy ; Visual anthropology Methodology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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
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