ANT 325M Chapter Notes - Chapter Introduction: Human Geography, Ethnography
30 Jan 2017
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It offers us forms of continuity between fieldwork in academic and applied research context that other media cannot. They"re part of how we learn how to become ethnographers. Contemporary fieldwork domains are saturated with visual images, practices of image making and of looking. Theory, methodology and method in doing visual ethnography. Pink argues that to incorporate visuals appropriately into social science. we should develop alternative objectives and methodologies she says you must reject the idea that the written word is essentially a superior medium of ethnographic representation. Visual representation bear and important relationship to, but cannot replace, words in conventional theoretical discussion. There"s no blueprint for how fieldwork should be constructed. Chapter one situates visual ethnography in its wider historical and disciplinary context. Chapter two outlines an approach, situating visual images and technologies in relation to a reflexive ethnography that focuses on subjectivity, creativity and self-consciousness. Chapter three focuses on the more practical aspects of preparing for visual fieldwork.
