Visual Methods in Social Research

Informationen zum Autor Marcus Banks is Professor of Visual Anthropoloigy at the University of Oxford. Having completed a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, with a study of Jain people in England and India, he trained as an ethnographic documentary filmmaker at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK.   He is the author Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research (2007) and co-editor of Rethinking Visual Anthropology (1997, with Howard Morphy), and Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (2011, with Jay Ruby), as well as publishing numerous papers on visual research.   He has published on documentary film forms and film practice in colonial India, and is currently conducting research on image production and use in forensic science practice. David Zeitlyn is Professor is Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has been working with Mambila people in Cameroon since 1985 on various research topics including traditional religion, sociolinguistics, kinship and history. In 2003/4 he was the Evans-Prichard Lecturer at All Souls College, Oxford presenting a series of lectures on the life-history of Diko Madeleine, the first wife of Chief Konaka of Somié village (see http://www.mambila.info/Diko_Web/ ). In recent years he started to work with Cameroonian photographers. In 2005 this led as part of Africa'05, to an exhibition of two Cameroonian studio photographers at the National Portrait Gallery, London in a display called 'Cameroon-London'. Some images from an earlier showing in Cameroon are online at http://www.mambila.info/Photography/Photo_Show/ .  More recently he has worked with the British Library's 'Endangered Archives Programme' to create an archive of the contents of the studio of Toussele Jacques, a photographer from Mbouda in Cameroon.   He has long standing interests in multimedia and how internet technologies can be used to illuminate and access museum collections and archives. His work on Mambila spider divination as a 'technology of choice making' led to some pioneering observational work on how library users choose which books to read. Klappentext An interdisciplinary guide to the field, this book fuses advanced theory with practical advice and examples to provide all readers with the ultimate resource on visual methods Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary guide to the field, this book fuses advanced theory with practical advice and examples to provide all readers with the ultimate resource on visual methods Inhaltsverzeichnis READING PICTURES The trouble with pictures An introductory example Unnatural vision Reading narratives Formal readings Planning a research project with visual methods ENCOUNTERING THE VISUAL On Television Visual forms produced I: representations of society Interpreting Forest of Bliss Still and moving images Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge Visualisation Networks Diagrams of Nuer lineages Visual forms encountered Encountering ¿indigenous¿ media The image as evidence ¿Us¿ and ¿them¿? MATERIAL VISION Object and representation The materiality of visual forms Displaying family photographs Exchanged goods Market exchange Size matters Transformations: digitisation and computer-based media Digital manipulation Digital pornography: constraining the virtual Digital pornography: exchange and circulation RESEARCH...

List of contents

READING PICTURES
The trouble with pictures
An introductory example
Unnatural vision
Reading narratives
Formal readings
Planning a research project with visual methods
ENCOUNTERING THE VISUAL
On Television
Visual forms produced I: representations of society
Interpreting Forest of Bliss
Still and moving images
Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge
Visualisation
Networks
Diagrams of Nuer lineages
Visual forms encountered
Encountering 'indigenous' media
The image as evidence
'Us' and 'them'?
MATERIAL VISION
Object and representation
The materiality of visual forms
Displaying family photographs
Exchanged goods
Market exchange
Size matters
Transformations: digitisation and computer-based media
Digital manipulation
Digital pornography: constraining the virtual
Digital pornography: exchange and circulation
RESEARCH STRATEGIES
Silk thread to plastic bags
Researching image use and production in social contexts
Watching television
Soap opera in India and Egypt
Television as social presence
Doing things with photographs and films
Photo-elicitation with archival images
Photo-elicitation with contemporary images
Learning from photo-elicitation
Film-elicitation
Working with archival material
Photographic archives and picture libraries
Film archives
MAKING IMAGES
Observing
Creating images for research
Documentation
A ladder climbed then discarded
Documentary exploration
Documentary control
Collaborative projects
Indigenous media collaborations
Collaborative after effects
Ethics and visual research
Ethical review
Permissions
Returning images
PRESENTING RESEARCH RESULTS
Audiences
Presenting photographs
The photographic essay
Presenting ethnographic and other films
Study guides and other contextualisation
Databases and digital images
Can computer see?
Multimedia projects
Interacting with Yanomamo
Copyright
PERSPECTIVES ON VISUAL RESEARCH
The state of visual research
The place of visual research
The nature of visual research

Report

This continues to be a key text for work with and on the visual. Highly recommended and not to be missed by anybody wanting to understand what images mean, both practically and theoretically. Arnd Schneider

Product details

• Authors: Marcus Banks, Marcus Zeitlyn Banks, Banks Marcus, David Zeitlyn, Zeitlyn David
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9781446269749
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-6974-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, REFERENCE / Research, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology