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Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, revised and expanded ed. (1986), xvii, 248 pp.

Contains many illustrations, index

ISBN 0-8263-0898-8 (hbk); 0-8263-0899-6 (pbk)

Signature commbox: 60-Photography-E 1986

1 The Challenge of Observation and the Nature of Photography, 5
2 The Camera in the Field, 15
3 Orientation and Rapport, 19
4 Photographing the Overview: Mapping and Surveying, 29
5 The Cultural Inventory, 45
6 Photographing Technology, 65
7 Photographing Social Circumstance and Interaction, 77
8 Interviewing with Photographs, 99
9 Psychological Significance and Overtones of Visual Imagery in Projective Interviewing, 117
10 Risks to Rapport in Photographing Probing, 133
11 Film and Video, 139
12 Film and Video in Field Research, 145
13 Ethnographic Film and Its Relationship to Film for Research, 151
14 Principles of Visual Research, 161
15 Analysis of Still and Moving Images, 175
16 Practical Procedures in Analysis, 185
17 Finding Patterns and Meaning, 195
18 Making Conclusions, 203
19 Technical Considerations in Visual Anthropology, 207