"Visual anthropology is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media."
Use of visual media as a method of understanding, representing, and analyzing human culture.
Cultural Representation: This is the study of how cultures are represented and portrayed in visual media, including film, photography, and advertising.
Visual Methods: This is the study of the different types of visual methods used in anthropological research, including participant observation, photography, videography, and visualization techniques.
Ethnographic Film: This is the study of the history and development of ethnographic film, including its different genres, styles, and techniques.
Applied Anthropology: This is the study of how anthropological knowledge and methods can be applied to practical problems in society, such as community development, public health, education, and social justice.
Media Anthropology: This is the study of how media technologies and practices shape and are shaped by cultural norms, values, and practices in different societies and cultures.
Visual Culture: This is the study of how visual forms of communication and representation shape and reflect cultural beliefs, attitudes, and practices in different societies and cultures.
Visual Analysis: This is the study of how to analyze visual data using different theoretical and methodological approaches, including semiotics, discourse analysis, and content analysis.
Collaborative Filmmaking: This is the study of how anthropologists and filmmakers can work together to co-create ethnographic films that represent and engage with the communities they study.
Documentary Ethics: This is the study of the ethical issues involved in producing visual representations of other cultures and communities, including issues of power, representation, and consent.
Multimodal Anthropology: This is the study of how different forms of communication and representation, including visual, verbal, and nonverbal modes, can be combined to create a more nuanced understanding of cultural practices and beliefs.
Ethnographic Film: This type of visual anthropology is focused on the creation of documentary films that capture the customs and cultures of various groups or communities.
Photography: Photography can be used to create images that capture the lives and traditions of different cultures, and these images can be used in a variety of contexts, from academic presentations to art exhibitions.
Multimedia Presentations: This type of visual anthropology involves creating a multimedia presentation that combines different forms of media, such as video clips, photographs, and sound recordings, to present a comprehensive view of a particular culture or community.
Video Ethnography: Video ethnography involves using video cameras to record daily life and interactions between individuals in a particular community or culture.
Web-Based Visual Anthropology: This type of visual anthropology is concerned with using web-based technologies to communicate ethnographic information to a wider audience.
Animated Film: Animated films can be used to visually represent cultural meanings and beliefs in a way that is accessible to a wider audience.
Graphic Design: This type of visual anthropology is focused on creating visual materials, such as posters and brochures, that communicate information about different cultures.
Museum Exhibits: Curators and anthropologists have worked together to design visually engaging museum exhibits that inform about different cultures and people.
Virtual Anthropology: This utilization of digital technology can transport users to a virtual reality that provides visual aspects to inform anthropology research.
Participatory Video: Participatory video design involves working with individuals or groups within a community to co-create a video that is culturally specific and represents that particular community's interests and experience.
"Visual anthropology encompasses much more, including the anthropological study of all visual representations such as dance and other kinds of performance, museums and archiving, all visual arts, and the production and reception of mass media."
"Research topics include sandpaintings, tattoos, sculptures and reliefs, cave paintings, scrimshaw, jewelry, hieroglyphics, paintings and photographs."
"Also within the province of the subfield are studies of human vision, properties of media, the relationship of visual form and function, and applied, collaborative uses of visual representations."
"Multimodal anthropology describes the latest turn in the subfield, which considers how emerging technologies like immersive virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile apps, social networking, gaming along with film, photography and art is reshaping anthropological research, practice and teaching."
"More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture."
"Although sometimes wrongly conflated with ethnographic film, visual anthropology encompasses much more..."
"Histories and analyses of representations from many cultures are part of visual anthropology..."
"Studies of human vision" are within the province of visual anthropology.
"Visual anthropology encompasses...the anthropological study of all visual representations such as dance and other kinds of performance..."
"Research topics include...paintings and photographs."
"Also within the province of the subfield are...the production and reception of mass media."
"Applied, collaborative uses of visual representations" are within the province of the subfield.
"Emerging technologies...are reshaping anthropological research..."
"...emerging technologies like immersive virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile apps, social networking, gaming along with film, photography and art..."
"More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture."
"The relationship of visual form and function" is studied within the subfield.
"...since the mid-1990s, new media" has been included in visual anthropology.
"Visual anthropology encompasses...museums and archiving."
"Studies of...properties of media" fall under the province of visual anthropology.