The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the Senses

by Pink; Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780415357654
• ISBN10: 0415357659
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134247134
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-02-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in the twenty-first centuryThe explosion of visual media in recent years has generated a wide range of visual and digital technologies which have transformed visual research and analysis. The result is an exciting new interdisciplinary approach of great potential influence for the future of social/cultural anthropology.Sarah Pink argues that this potential can be harnessed by engaging visual anthropology with its wider contexts, including:* the increasing use of visual research methods across the social sciences and humanities* the growth in popularity of the visual as methodology and object of analysis within mainstream anthropology and applied anthropology* the growing interest in 'anthropology of the senses' and media anthropology* the development of new visual technologies that allow anthropologists to work in new ways.This book has immense interdisciplinary potential, and will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of visual anthropology, media anthropology, visual cultural studies, media studies and sociology.

Author Biography

Sarah Pink lectures in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xi
PART I Situating visual anthropology	1	(38)
Engaging the visual: an introduction	3	(18)
Interdisciplinary agendas: (re)situating visual anthropology	21	(18)
PART II Visual anthropology and the mainstream	39	(40)
New sensations?: visual anthropology and the senses	41	(18)
Visual anthropology and anthropological writing: the case of the sensory home	59	(20)
PART III Engaging with the real world	79	(24)
Visual engagement as social intervention: applied visual anthropology	81	(22)
PART IV Visual anthropology and digital technologies	103	(26)
Visual anthropology and hypermedia: towards conversing anthropologically	105	(24)
PART V Conclusion	129	(16)
A visual anthropology for the twenty-first century	131	(14)
Notes	145	(6)
References	151	(12)
Index	163