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Visual Anthropology and the City 14 & 15 October 2016 ‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and UCL Institute of Archaeology, Heritage Studies, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists. Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the…
Visual Anthropology, vol. 29, n. 4-5 Summary Dmitry V. Arzyutov Samoyedic Diary: Early Years of Visual Anthropology in the Soviet Arctic Lamont Lindstrom Shooting Melanesians: Martin Johnson and Edward Salisbury in the Southwest Pacific Roos Gerritsen Intimacy on Display: Movie Stars, Images and Everyday Life in South India Arnd Schneider A Black Box for Participatory…
Alessandro Jedlowski Nolliwood. L’industria video nigeriana e le sue diramazioni transnazionali Napoli, Liguori Editore, 2016 Il volume ricostruisce la genesi e lo sviluppo dell’industria video nigeriana detta Nollywood, un sistema che produce 1000-1500 film ogni anno e li distribuisce direttamente in formato home-video. I video di Nollywood circolano in quasi tutta l’Africa sub-sahariana, nei Caraibi,…
Visual Ethnography, Vol. 5, n. 1, 2016 Participatory Approaches to Visual Ethnography from the Digital to the Handmade Issue edited by Francesca Bayre, Krista Harper and Ana I. Afonso Summary FRANCESCA BAYRE, KRISTA HARPER, ANA ISABEL AFONSO PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES TO VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY FROM THE DIGITAL TO THE HANDMADE. AN INTRODUCTION Open access > http://vejournal.org/index.php/vejournal/article/view/90/111 ARTICLES…
Visual Anthropology, Vol. 29, N. 3 Special Issue: Visual Revolutions in the Middle East Visual Revolutions in the Middle East Mark R. Westmoreland & Diana K. Allan 14.3 Seconds: Politics, Art and the Archival Imagination Peter Limbrick Thinking with X-rays: Investigating the Politics of Visibility through the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid’s Photography Collection Zeynep Devrim Gürsel…
Digital Materialities. Design and Anthropology Edited by Sarah Pink, Elisenda Ardèvol, Dèbora Lanzeni Bloomsbury, 2016 Publisher web site As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to…
Christopher Morton, Darren Newbury (Eds) The African Photographic Archive. Research and Curatorial Strategies Bloomsbury, 2016 Publisher Website African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and…
Roger Sansi Art, Anthropology and the Gift Bloosmbury, 2014 Publisher Website In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subjects through practice, theory and politics….
Fiona Candlin Micromuseology. An Analysis of Small Independent Museums Bloomsbury, 2015 Publisher Website How would our understanding of museums change if we used the Vintage Wireless Museum or the Museum of Witchcraft as examples – rather than the British Museum or the Louvre? Although there are thousands of small, independent, single-subject museums in the UK,…
15th RAI FILM FESTIVAL The RAI Film Festival is a biennial event dedicated to the celebration of the best in ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe. First held in 1985, and one of the longest-established in its field, RAI-FF has served as a leading forum for exploring the multiple relationships between documentary…
14th EASA Biennial Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures Department of Human Science for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’ and Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca 20-23 July, 2016 FILMS AND OTHER AUDIOVISUAL CONTRIBUTIONS Convenors/curators: Paolo S. H. Favero (University of Antwerp); Ivan Bargna (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) A core challenge for…
Political Imagination Laboratory: Visualizing and Contextualizing Ethnographies of Social Movements The “Peasant Activism Project” (www.peasantproject.org), in cooperation with the network “Anthropology and Social Movements” of the European Association of Social Movements (EASA) and “Contro-Sguardi”, promotes the first meeting of the POLITICAL IMAGINATION LABORATORY: Visualizing and Contextualizing Ethnographies of Social Movements. The event will take place…
15th RAI FILM FESTIVAL The RAI Film Festival is a biennial event dedicated to the celebration of the best in ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe. First held in 1985, and one of the longest-established in its field, RAI-FF has served as a leading forum for exploring the multiple relationships between documentary…
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APRICOT TREE FILM FESTIVAL: A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS http://www.atieff.org/en/ Apricot Tree Ethno Film Festival is happy to announce a call for submissions. The 2nd Apricot Tree film festival will take place October 1-5, 2016, in Yerevan, Udjan and Gyumri. Only filmmakers with ethnographic and anthropological films can apply. There is no age limitation for the…
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«Regard Bleu» #12 Festival for ethnographic student film and media 21.-23. October 2016 We are proud to announce this year’s 12th edition of the student film festival «Regard Bleu», held at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich. Over the last 11 years, «Regard Bleu» has grown to an interdisciplinary platform for ethnographic and…
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The Royal Anthropological Institute in partnership with University of Southern California Dornsife presents 15th RAI Film Festival anthropology – ethnography – archaeology 29 March – 1 April 2017 Watershed Cinema, Bristol, United Kingdom The Festival will showcase a selection of films competing in five prize categories (RAI Film Prize; Basil Wright Prize; Student; Material Culture…
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Our impression of the world is influenced by the images we see in the news media. However, the news cover the exceptional, the abnormal. We get less information about the everyday life of ordinary people. This – the everyday life, how people relate to each other – is the research subject of anthropology. Anthropological film as a genre is based first and foremost on the anthropological method, which includes long periods of fieldwork and recording images. Anthropological films reveal an approach to the field that is based on mutual trust and insight into the values on which people base their everyday lives.
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Visual Ethnography, Vol. 5, n. 1, 2016 – Participatory Approaches to Visual Ethnography from the Digital to the Handmade
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Visual Ethnography vol. 4, n. 2 is online
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Visual Ethnography is indexed on Scopus and Web of Science ESCI
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Visual Ethnography vol. 4, n.1 (2015)
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VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY, Vol. 3, n. 2 (2014)
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Visual Ethnography, Vol. 5, n. 1, 2016 Participatory Approaches to Visual Ethnography from the Digital to the Handmade Issue edited by Francesca Bayre, Krista Harper and Ana I. Afonso Summary FRANCESCA BAYRE, KRISTA HARPER, ANA ISABEL AFONSO PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES TO VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY FROM THE DIGITAL TO THE HANDMADE. AN INTRODUCTION Open access > http://vejournal.org/index.php/vejournal/article/view/90/111 ARTICLES…
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VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY vol. 4, n. 2 is available in printed and online version www.vejournal.org SUMMARY ARTICLES Bill Buse What Becomes A Bride The Most: The Yemenite Jewish Henna ABSTRACT The Yemenite Jewish henna bride is widely admired and envied in Israel. Her iconic image is reified and exhibited in shops, on billboards, and in museums…
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Visual Ethnography is pleased to announce that the journal has been accepted for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, a new edition of Web of Science™. Content in this index is under consideration by Thomson Reuters to be accepted in the Science Citation Index Expanded™, the Social Sciences Citation Index®, and the Arts &…
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The new issue of VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY is online at www.vejournal.org The journal is available also in printed version. Table of Contents ARTICLES Kathrin Oester, Bernadette Brunner Jean Rouch Back in School: Teaching and research as a parallel process through media projects with adolescents in Switzerland Diana M. Ruggiero Más allá del fútbol: Validating Afro-Latino Culture…
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The new issue of VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY is online at www.vejournal.org
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ARTICLES
Irene Salerno
Sharing Memories and “Telling” Heritage through Audio-Visual Devices. Participatory Ethnography and New Patterns for Cultural Heritage Interpretation and Valorisation
Jonathan Ventura, Ariela Popper-Giveon, Atef abu Rabia
Materialized Beliefs: ‘Industrialized’ Islamic Amulets
Fabio Ciaravella
Parafiction in un quartiere di Matera. Su un possibile contributo dell’arte contemporanea come metodo d’analisi della città
REPORTS
Felice Tiragallo
Il cinema etnografico transculturale. I film e la riflessione teorica di David MacDougall
PHOTO ESSAYS, VIDEO, REPORTS, FILM, REVIEWS, BOOKS RECEIVED
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Anthrovision, vol. 2, n. 2 is online at http://anthrovision.revues.org/1077 Tweet #visualanthropology
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Anthropocene Directed by Steve Bradshaw 97 mins Produced by Jenny Richards Editor: Sotira Kyriacou Cinematography: Alex Gabbay, Magne Ostby, Stefano Cassini Music: Audio Network Produced by Flaxmoor Productions in association with Panos Pictures, Spring Films, TV/E Distributor: Bullfrog Films Examines whether human impact has tipped the planet into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, with…
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Visual Anthropology, vol. 29, n. 4-5 Summary Dmitry V. Arzyutov Samoyedic Diary: Early Years of Visual Anthropology in the Soviet Arctic Lamont Lindstrom Shooting Melanesians: Martin Johnson and Edward Salisbury in the Southwest Pacific Roos Gerritsen Intimacy on Display: Movie Stars, Images and Everyday Life in South India Arnd Schneider A Black Box for Participatory…
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Visual Ethnography, Vol. 5, n. 1, 2016 Participatory Approaches to Visual Ethnography from the Digital to the Handmade Issue edited by Francesca Bayre, Krista Harper and Ana I. Afonso Summary FRANCESCA BAYRE, KRISTA HARPER, ANA ISABEL AFONSO PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES TO VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY FROM THE DIGITAL TO THE HANDMADE. AN INTRODUCTION Open access > http://vejournal.org/index.php/vejournal/article/view/90/111 ARTICLES…
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