Visual anthropology

As visual anthropology , those parts of ethnology (ethnology) and other social and cultural sciences are summarized that research or produce visual cultural representations from an ethnological point of view . These include above all photography , film and video technology (see ethnographic photography , ethnological film ), but increasingly also television , new media , performance , museums and the fine arts . Visual anthropology emerged as an academic subject in the 1970s in the Anglo-Saxon language area .

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Audiovisual media , photography and others play different roles in visual anthropology:

as a cultural document and source of scientific analysis,
audiovisual or photographic field notes as a protocol tool and part of field research ,
as a method in research and teaching,
as a form of presentation of research results,
to research visual representation and perception (see also reflexive photography ).

Visual anthropology can be studied at the following German universities:

Masters course :
- Visual and Media Anthropology as an advanced master's degree at the Free University of Berlin
- Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices as a part-time master’s degree at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
Main focus in a master’s course:
- Focus on visual ethnology in the master's degree in comparative cultural and social anthropology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt / Oder
- Focus on visual ethnology in the master's degree in social anthropology at the University of Munich
- Focus on curriculum visual anthropology in the master's degree in cultural anthropology / European ethnology at the University of Göttingen

Cultural document . Brazilian village, woodcut from Entrée du Roi Henri à Rouen , 1550
Cultural document . Photo of a Herero woman, before 1914
Field notes . Bronislaw Malinowski with book, Trobriander, around 1918

Marcus Banks, Howard Morphy (Eds.): Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale University Press, New Haven 1999, ISBN 978-0-300-07854-1 (English).
Malcom Collier u. a .: Visual Anthropology. Photography as a Research Method. University of Mexico, Mexico 1986, ISBN 978-0-826-30899-3 (English).
Anna Grimshaw: The Ethnographer's Eye. Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001 (English).
David MacDougall: Transcultural Cinema. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1998 (English).
Margaret Mead : Anthropology and the Camera. In: Willard D. Morgan (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Photography. New York 1963 (English).
Sarah Pink : Doing Visual Ethnography. Images, Media and Representation in Research. Sage, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-412-92348-4 (English).
Harald EL Prins: Visual Anthropology. In: T. Biolsi (Ed.): A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians. Blackwell, Oxford 2004, pp. 506-525.
Sol Worth, John Adair: Through Navajo Eyes. Indiana University Press, Chicago 1972 (English).