"Visual anthropology is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media."
The use of photography, film, and other visual media to document and analyze human cultures and societies.
Visual representation: How visuals are used for representation and communication in culture.
Ethnographic filmmaking: How to create films that reflect and represent the culture and lived experience of a group of people.
Visual methods: The different methods and techniques used for visual data collection in anthropology, including photography and videography.
Cultural interpretation: How culture is interpreted through visual representation and how cultural biases can affect representation.
Media anthropology: How social and cultural factors affect media production, consumption, and representation.
Art and aesthetics: The role of art in culture, how art can reflect cultural values, and how different cultures have different aesthetics.
Visual culture: A broader understanding of how visual media shapes culture and society.
Documentary photography: How photographs can be used to document and represent culture.
Video ethnography: How video can be used to document and represent culture.
Reflexivity: How the researcher's own biases and cultural background can affect their interpretation of visual data.
Representation and power: How visual representations can perpetuate or challenge power dynamics in society.
Visual storytelling: How visuals can be used to tell stories and the role of narrative in visual representation.
"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.