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[Key text & resources]

Aldridge, Michael 1995: ¡§Scholarly Practice ¡V Ethnographic Film and Anthropology; Beyond Ethnographic Film: Hypermedia and Scholarship,¡¨ in Visual Anthropology vol. 7 (3). 233-5.

Barker, Chris 2000: Cultural Studies: theory and practice. Sage, London.

Emerson, R.M.; R.I. Fretz and L.L. Shaw, 2001: ¡§Participant Observation and Fieldnotes,¡¨ in Paul Atkinson (eds. et al), Handbook of Ethnography. Sage, London.

Hockings, Paul (ed.) 1995: Photography and Visual Anthropology. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York.

Pink, Sarah 2001: Doing visual ethnography : images, media and representation in research. Sage, London.

Roberts, John 2006: Philosophizing the Everyday: revolutionary praxis and the fate of cultural theory. Pluto Press, Ann Arbor.

Visual Anthropology Review
***a journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology; an excellent resource showing how anthropologists use videography and photography as a research method.

Web resources for Visual Anthropology: a UR list: http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/index.html

UR-list 7: audio visual collections: http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/ur07.htm
UR-list 5: visual ethnographies: http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/ur05.htm
Library of Congress: early motion pictures on the web, 1897-1916: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Motion+Picture

 

 

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[Basic reference on visual ethnography and visual anthropology]

Biella, Peter 1994: Codifications of Ethnography: Linear and Non-linear. University of Southern California.

Collier, Jr., John; Malcolm Collier (eds.) 1986: Visual Anthropology: photography as a research method. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Crawford, Peter Ian and David Turton (eds.) 1992: Film as Ethnography. Manchester University Press, New York.

Rose, Gillian 2001: Visual Methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. Sage publications, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi.

West, W. Gordon 1996: ¡§Photo-documentary and Visual Ethnography in a Postmodern Digital World: From Positivist Empiricist Pomposity towards a Critique of Photo-electric Representation¡¨ (November 30), available on-line at http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/minweb/gwtexts/thdcph5.htm

 

 

 

*additional bibliography for VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY*

 

 

[Expanded modes of ethnomethodologies and case examples]

Adrian, Bonnie 2003: Framing the Bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan¡¦s bridal industry. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.

Bach, Hedy 1998: A Visual Narrative Concerning Curriculum, Girls, Photography, Etc. (Dissertation)

Ofield, Simon 2005: ¡§Cruising the Archive,¡¨ in Journal of Visual Culture vol. 4(3). 351-64. On-line version available at: http://vcu.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/3/351

Spina, S.U. 1995: ¡§Worlds together¡KWords apart: bridging cognition and communication for second-language learners through authentic arts-based curriculum,¡¨ in Language, Culture, and Curriculum 8(3). 231-47.

Walker, Ian 2002: City Gorged with Dreams: surrealism and documentary photography in inter-war Paris. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

[On objects, things, and new perspectives in critical theory]

Collins, Douglas 2002-3: ¡§The Great Effects of Small Things: Insignificance with Immanence in Critical Theory,¡¨ in Anthropoetics 8, no. 2 (fall 2002 / winter 2003) at http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0802/collins.htm

Cummings, Neil (ed.) 1993: Reading Things (Sight Works, volume 3). Chance Books, London.

__________ and Marysia Lewandowska 2000: The Value of Things. Birkhauser, Switzerland; August Media, London.

Latour, Bruno 1???: From Real Politics to Politics of Things.

Macdonald, Cynthia 2005: Varieties of Things: foundations of contemporary metaphysics. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Oxford, Carlton.

 

 

 

[Documentary films, ethnographic films and extended forms]

Barsam, Richard M. 1986: ¡§American Direct Cinema: the Re-presentation of Reality,¡¨ in Persistence of Vision 3/4. 132-56.

Bruzzi, Stella 2000: New Documentary: a Critical Introduction. Routledge, London and New York.

Corner, John 2002: ¡§Performing the Real: Documentary Diversions,¡¨ in Television & New Media 3. 255-68. On-line version available at: http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/3/255

Deren, Maya 1960: ¡§Cinematography: the Creative Use of Reality,¡¨ in Daedalus winter. 150-67.

Morin, Richard P. 1994: Anthropologist¡¦s Award-winning Film Chronicles Indian Village Life.

[On ethnography & art-making]

Aliaga, Juan Vicente; Maria de Corral; and Jose Miguel G. Cortes (eds.) 2003: Micro-politicas: arte y cotidianidad 2001-1968 [Art and everyday life 2001-1968]; a book that accompanies the exhibition ¡§Micropolitics, Art and Everyday Life (2001-1968),¡¨ organized by the Espai d¡¦Art Contemporani de Castello, held from 31st January to 21st September 2003, Spain.

Le Feuvre, Lisa; and Akram Zaatari (eds.) 2004: Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices; published to coincide with the exhibition ¡§Hashem El Madani,¡¨ at the Photographers¡¦ Gallery, October 14 to November 28, 2004. Arab Image Foundation, Beirut; Mind the Gap, Beirut; and the Photographers¡¦ Gallery, London.

Ngan, Irene; and Eliza Lai (eds.) 2004: Mapping Identities: the art and curating of Oscar Ho; a catalogue to accompany the exhibition ¡§Mapping Identities: the Art and Curating of Oscar Ho,¡¨ the 4th of the ¡§Hong Kong Artists in the 1980s¡¨ series, exhibited at and organized for the Para/Site Art Space, November 5 to December 5, 2004, Hong Kong

[Theoretical thinking on everyday landscape]

Fenton, Laura 2005: ¡§Citizenship in Private Space,¡¨ in Space and Culture 8. 180-92. On-line version available at: http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/180

Edensor, Tim 2003: ¡§Defamiliarizing the Mundane Roadscape,¡¨ in Space and Culture 6. 151-68. On-line version available at: http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/2/151

[On archives, archiving]

Featherstone, Mike 2006: ¡§Archive,¡¨ in the session ¡§Problematizing Global Knowledge: Library / Archive / Museum,¡¨ Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3), May. 591-6.

Lynch, Michael 1999: ¡§Archives in formation: privileged spaces, popular archives and paper trails,¡¨ in History of the Human Sciences 12, May. 65-87.

Robertson, Craig 2004: ¡§The Archive, Disciplinarity, and Governing: Cultural Studies and the Writing of History,¡¨ in Cultural Studies sa Critical Methodologies, volume 4 number 4. 450-71.