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The aim of this chapter is to explain what visual anthropology is and to demonstrate her and her sister's, visual sociology's, uses in understanding the increasingly sophisticated competition for our (un)divided attention. This fierce, mostly visual and iconic, competition underpins systematically mobilized and individualized interactions and ...
Michaela Schäuble +3 more
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Critical Review of Visual Anthropology [PDF]
This article aims to develop a critical overview of visual anthropology by exploring the main obstacles and pivotal challenges throughout its evolution. It explores the ongoing representational and logocentric orientations of mainstream anthropology that have caused the rejection of acknowledging audio-visual anthropology as valid academic work ...
Omrani, Arjang
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Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei +4 more
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History and Future of Visual Anthropology [PDF]
Visual recording of communication processes between communities or individuals by means of filming of photographing is of significant importance in anthropology, as it documents on site the specific features of various social communities in their encounter with the researcher.
Sviličić, Nikša, Nikša Sviličić
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Principles of visual anthropology, review [PDF]
The importance of the original publication in 1975 of Paul Hockings' Principles of Visual Anthropology cannot be underestimated. Along with Karl Heider's Ethnographic Film (1976), Hockings' collection is regarded by people outside of the field as the ...
Durington, Matthew Slover
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A critical review of visual anthropology [PDF]
This article aims to develop a critical overview of visual anthropology by exploring the main obstacles and pivotal challenges throughout its evolution. It explores the ongoing representational and logocentric orientations of mainstream anthropology that
Omrani, ArjangPP060001815946098020031318230000-0001-6289-4263D6D34BBC-49D2-11E9-BD2E-4D9B5607D3EF
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Representing the Bektashis - Exploring Epistemologies in Visual Anthropology [PDF]
As a professional photojournalist collaborating with anthropologists, I have o en con- fronted perspectives from academic scholars with little (if none) practical knowledge of, attention to, and understanding of the visual medium.
Fusari, M.
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Television and anthropology: an unhappy marriage? [PDF]
This paper surveys ethnographic film as it has been presented over the years on British television, particularly in the Disappearing World series. A detailed criticism leads to the conclusion that anthropologists should not place too much faith in the ...
Banks, Marcus
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Understanding Anthropological Understanding: for a merological anthropology [PDF]
In this paper I argue for a merological anthropology in which ideas of ‘partiality’ and ‘practical adequacy’ provide a way out of the impasse of relativism which is implied by post-modernism and the related abandonment of a concern with ‘truth’.
Zeitlyn, David +2 more
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The monographic section of this issue of EthnoAnthropology is dedicated to the history of the Russian anthropological sciences, to the museography and methodology of ethnographic research and finally to the visual anthropology in Russia.
Alberto Baldi
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