Visual Anthropology and Ethnography Fundamentals

Flashcards covering the basic assumptions, methods, and theoretical frameworks of Visual Anthropology and Ethnography according to the lecture notes.

Visual Anthropology Assumption $1$

The core belief that vision is socially and/or culturally constructed.

Visual Anthropology Assumption $2$

The premise that cultural meanings and notions about society are communicated through the visual.

Visual Anthropology Assumption $3$

The use of (audio)-visual media for studying culture and society.

Visual Ethnography

A research approach that focuses on the visual and the senses as a means to understand culture and society using (audio)-visual media as tools.

Multimodal Senses

Involving film, photography, sound, poetry, and participatory methods within sensory ethnography to enlarge knowledge.

Cultural Behavior (Visual Culture)

The observation of what people do as a component of observing the tacit in research.

Cultural Artefacts (Visual and Material Culture)

The observation of things people make and use, such as clothes and tools.

Speech Messages

Listening to what people say through interviewing and eliciting to understand the tacit.

Sensory Method

A form of visual ethnography that attends to the senses as a union with the world to defamiliarize assumptions and use experience as an instrument of knowledge.

Pathway to the Senses

A concept by MacDougall ($1997: 289$) defining the visual as a way to address how people feel in and respond to the world.

Corporeal Image

An image that offers knowledge by acquaintance rather than knowledge by description.

Bronisław Malinowski ($1961[1922]: 25$)

The anthropologist who stated the goal is to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, and realize his vision of his world.

Ira Block

An individual associated with communicating cultural meanings and notions about society through the visual.

COO

A term or acronym associated with the concept that 'Seeing is touching'.