Visual Anthropology: Photography As a Research Method

by Collier, John

• ISBN13: 9780826308993
• ISBN10: 0826308996
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

This book provides reliable research methods from the systematic gathering of data through analysis of photographic records to transfer of insights to ethnographic records, with an emphasis on developing the skills of thorough observation rather than on technical skill.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xiii
Edward T. Hall
Introduction
The Challenge of Observation and the Nature of Photography	5	(10)
The Camera in the Field	15	(4)
Orientation and Rapport	19	(10)
Photographing the Overview: Mapping and Surveying	29	(16)
The Cultural Inventory	45	(20)
Photographing Technology	65	(12)
Photographing Social Circumstance and Interaction	77	(22)
Interviewing with Photographs	99	(18)
Psychological Significance and Overtones of Visual Imagery in Projective Interviewing	117	(16)
Risks to Rapport in Photographing Probing	133	(6)
Film and Video	139	(6)
Film and Video in Field Research	145	(6)
Ethnographic Film and Its Relationship to Film for Research	151	(10)
Principles of Visual Research	161	(14)
Analysis of Still and Moving Images	175	(10)
Practical Procedures in Analysis	185	(10)
Finding Patterns and Meaning	195	(8)
Making Conclusions	203	(4)
Technical Considerations in Visual Anthropology	207
References
Index