Understanding Social Images

Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology

von Marcus Banks

218 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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. It situates Banks' work in contemporary visual anthropology and Howard Morphy's Afterword explores how Banks' work helped illuminate his own collaboration with the filmmaker Ian Dunlop in aboriginal Australia.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781836950066
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2025
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: David Zeitlyn, Chihab El Khachab