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Category: Visual Anthropology
28/12/09
01:17:05, by Lorenz 
. Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Asia, books, history, Visual Anthropology Colonialism, racism and visual anthropology in Japan: Photography, Anthropology and History part II
Here is the second part of the review of the book Photography, Anthropology and History, edited by Christopher Morton and Elizabeth Edwards. This time, Tessa Valo reviews Ka F. Wong's article about one of the first Japanese anthropologists, who beca… more »
23/12/09
20:56:14, by Lorenz . Categories: books, anthropology (general), media, history, Visual Anthropology Book review: Photography, Anthropology and History (Part I)
When filming people became possible, anthropologists began to drift away from it. Though better off than at the beginning of the 20th century, the visual anthropology today is still perceived as a marginal discipline, Tessa Valo writes in the first part… more »
22/10/09
14:46:41, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), music, Visual Anthropology, internet Interview: Meet Dai Cooper from The Anthropology Song!
Dai Cooper's Anthropology Song has fascinated people all over the world. Around 10 000 people have seen the video on YouTube so far, it was sent around via facebook, twitter, mailing lists, and was already shown in many anthropology classes. Maybe nobody… more »
19/10/09
19:42:23, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), Visual Anthropology, internet The Anthropology Song!
(via facebook and Savage Minds) What is Anthropology? What is it about? Forget about all definitions, here is the Anthropology Song by Dai Cooper:[video:youtube:LHv6rw6wxJY] more »
22/01/09
21:14:38, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, development empowerment, Visual Anthropology Anthropological activism in Pakistan with lullabies
A few days ago, Pakistani anthropologist Samar Minallah lauched a "video song", a tribute to little girls in all the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan where schools are being destroyed, depriving girls of their right to education, The News reports.… more »
20/01/09
What anthropologists and artists have in common
In the new issue of American Ethnography, we'll find these words by anthropologist Martin Hoyem:
Artists, like ethnographers, train their eyes to see things other people don't see. They try to present what they see so that we, the audience, can glimp… more »
03/08/08
16:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, globalisation, music, Visual Anthropology, cosmopolitanism Anthropologist explores heavy metal in Asia, South America and the Middle East
In 2005 his movie Metal - A Headbanger's journey took the world with storm. Now anthropologist and metal musician Sam Dunn has released "Global Metal" - a film about the global expansion of heavy metal music.
Together with his co-director Scot McFayde… more »
30/03/08
Via YouTube: Anthropology students' work draws more than a million viewers
Many assignments go no farther than between the student completing it and the professor grading it. But assignments in Michael Wesch's anthropology classes at Kansas State University have been seen around the world and by as many as 1.5 million other peo… more »
05/03/08
16:52:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, fieldwork / methods, Visual Anthropology, internet, websites "Visual Anthropology of Japan" and more new blogs
Visual Anthropology of Japan" is the name of the blog by anthropologist Steven Fedorowicz (Kansai Gaidai University). All of his students in his class with the same name are required to blog. He links to more than a dozen student blogs.
He explains:… more »
28/10/07
AfricaWrites - Videos from rural Africa
Patrick Gorham, editor of AfricaWrites: Heroes, Rituals & Legends writes to me. He created AfricaWrites several years ago "with the intent and goals of research, exploration, preservation and documentation of traditional African culture". On the webs… more »
03/12/06
Oxford to Host First Conference on Visual Anthropology of Iran
The first Interdisciplinary Conference on the Visual Anthropology of Iran entitled “Images of Culture, Culture of Images” is to be held in Oxford University in September 2007, according to a press release.
The two-day conference on the Visual Anthropo… more »
03/11/06
01:46:13, by Lorenz . Categories: gender, fieldwork / methods, youth, Middle East, Visual Anthropology Photography as research tool: More engaged Kurdish anthropology
Visual anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has published several new articles at KurdishMedia.com. It looks like he is about to publish a whole book there. It started four weeks ago with part one of Media consumption, conformity and resistance: A visual ethnog… more »
09/10/06
02:11:52, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, music, youth, journal articles / papers, Visual Anthropology Play as research method - new Anthropology Matters is out
In the field, anthropologists spent lots of time playing football or learning to dance: Could such enjoyable pastimes be considered a kind of work? Could play be used as a research technique? The new issue of Anthropology Matters is out. Its topic: From… more »
08/10/06
23:14:38, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers, Middle East, Visual Anthropology, websites Visual ethnography and Kurdish anthropology by Kameel Ahmady
The first part of the paper Media consumption, conformity and resistance: a visual ethnography of youth culture in Iranian Kurdistan by anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been published on KurdishMedia. Ahmady wanted to examine the factors which shape a s… more »
03/10/06
01:00:27, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, inuit, Arctic / Northern Regions, Visual Anthropology How filmmaking is reviving shamanism
As noted earlier, Inuit film maker Zacharias Kunuk explores in his film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen how missionaries force-fed Christianity to the Inuit in the 1920s.
Now the film has made its way to the International Film Festival in Toronto and… more »
27/06/06
14:42:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, migration, Visual Anthropology 24 minutes visual anthropology about (trans)nationalism on the Danish-German border
Anthropologist and blogger Johannes Wilm has published a fascinating video about the annual meeting of the Danish minority in a small village in Northern Germany called Ascheffel. Is it possible to be both German and Danish? Why are there so many Germans… more »
12/10/05
00:05:15, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Asia, Visual Anthropology, websites Photos and songs from fieldwork in Siberia, reflections on ethnographic photographing
Estonian anthropologist Janno Simm has his own website with several exciting photos from his fieldwork in Northern Khanty fishing and reindeer communities in Siberia. You can even listen to two Khanty songs.
In his text Reflections on Ethnographic Ph… more »
26/09/05
Visual designanthropology: Watch film about the design chair online
Anthropologist Kristiina Lavia has already three years ago made a film about designing a chair: She portraits the Norwegian designers Svein Gusrud, Torstein Nilsen and Sigurd Strøm – and the way they experience their work with design and creativit… more »
19/09/05
23:59:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Northern America, Native American, history, Visual Anthropology, ethics On Savage Minds: Debate on the Construction of Indigenous Culture by Anthropologists
Early visual anthropologists produced a form of salvage anthropology that uncoupled "traditional" society from any form of change, Patrick Harries (University of Cape Town), writes in an article on the the history of visual anthropology in South Africa.… more »
11/08/05
Anthropology, photography and racism
(via Vizuális Antropológia.lap.hu) A critical article by Patrick Harries, University of Cape Town, dealing with the history of visual anthropology in South Africa. "Many early practitioners thought photographs reflected reality in an objective and unbia… more »
03/08/05
10:52:59, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), Visual Anthropology, websites The occational blog - New Anthropology Blog from Norway
Norwegian Anthropologist Brigt Dale has started to blog in English - additionally to Norwegian. In his first post, he writes:
First of all, I will try to follow up on my motto for my Norwegian blog, and relentlessly attack and scrutinise all things w… more »
06/05/05
Photoethnography Blog and Blogging Asia
(via delicious)Karen Nakamura is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on disability and minority identity issues in contemporary Japan, currently in Kyoto for fieldwork. While you'll find many camera reviews on her blog, her homepage lists many links re… more »
13/12/04
Anthropological film: How technology helps men with physical handicaps
One more film to be viewed on the website of Visual Anthropology in Tromsø/Norway - Independent by Espen Marius Foss:
"This story is about two young Norwegian men with physical handicaps who seek the good life in a technological world. Dagfinn runs hi… more »
29/10/04
maitres-fous.net - a Website devoted to ethnographer Jean Rouch's films
maitres-fous.net
The filmmaker and ethnographer Jean Rouch died in northern Niger on February 19, 2004. He was 86 years old. He left behind a legacy of over 120 films - the bulk of which were recorded in West Africa.
Rouch's work in Africa is chara… more »
24/08/04
Upcoming Ethnographic Filmfestivals
There are at least 12 ethnographic film festivals somewhere on this planet until the end of the year. Check the August Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association >> continue or use the direct link to the rtf-document
Check also the over… more »
20/08/04
16:00:33, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Visual Anthropology Anthropological Films online
For those of you with a fast broadband connection: On the website of the Visual Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, you can download / view several anthropological films:
Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abe… more »
28/07/04
08:58:32, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Pacific Oceania, Visual Anthropology The Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico and Fishing in the Solomon Islands
Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA)
Explore the Chea-villagers' traditional "Kuarao"-fishing in the Solomon Islands - in an interactive presentation based on professor Edvard Hviding and SOTFilm a/s filmproject "Chea's Great Kuarao" (1996).… more »
26/07/04
09:06:43, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, poverty, migration, Visual Anthropology Visual anthropology: Documenting the economic exodus from Mexico
Monterey County Herald
Men are absent from the streets. It is often several years before they return from their farmworking, gardening or construction jobs across the border. Sometimes they don't return at all, leaving their wives and children to live… more »
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