Understanding Social Images

Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology

Marcus Banks, David Zeitlyn, Chihab El Khachab (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-006-6 (ISBN)

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Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research. It discusses the meaning of anthropological research in film archives and illustrates how to analyse a wide range of visual material like maps, diagrams and enigmatic photographs. Howard Morphy’s afterword is written in response to the essays in the book and as a part of an interrupted dialogue with Marcus. It focuses on how visual anthropology’s distinctive methodology engages with the central theoretical issues of contemporary anthropology.

Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford until he passed away in 2020. He was a pioneer in integrating visual approaches into the mainstream of social and cultural anthropology. With Howard Morphy, he edited the influential volume Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1999).

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Part I: Introductions

Introduction: Tracing a Trajectory

David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab

Chapter 1. Visual Anthropology: Image, Object and Interpretation

Part II: Raju and His Friends

Chapter 2. Forty-Minute Fieldwork: 2a Raju Film Synopsis as Box Insert

Chapter 3. Reclaiming a Soul Stolen by the Camera

Chapter 4. Revisiting Raju

Part III: Photo-Elicitation and Image Analysis

Chapter 5. Analysing Images

Chapter 6. Photography, Memory, and Affect: Two Fragments from the History of an Indian City Chapter 7. Slow Research: Exploring One’s Own Visual Archive

Part IV: Archives and Visual Research

Chapter 8. An Anthropologist in the Film Archives: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Chapter 9. Visual Anthropology: Image Technologies in the Field

Chapter 10. What Can We Learn from Visual Methods?

Afterword: After Marcus: Visual Methods, Visual Pedagogies

Howard Morphy

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 30 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-83695-006-3 / 1836950063
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-006-6 / 9781836950066
Zustand	Neuware