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Vol. 20, n. 1

Co-Editors:
Najwa Adra - najwa@optonline.net
Andrea Walsh - awalsh@uvic.ca

Film Review Editor:
Lisa M. Mitchell - lmm@uvic.ca

Book Review Editor:
Christina Harris - charris@gc.cuny.edu

The Visual Anthropology Review is the official publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Its editorial and production offices are located at: 22 High Pine Glen Cove, NY 11542 and Department of Anthropology, B311 Cornett Building, P.O. Box 3050 Stn CSC, University of Victoria, Victoria BC V8W 3P5 CANADA.

Contents

 

Applied Visual Anthropology

Najwa Adra Editor's Introduction to the Volume

Sarah Pink Guest Editor's Introduction. Applied Visual Anthropology: Social Intervention, Visual Methodologies and Anthropological Theory


Richard Chalfen & Michael Rich Applying Visual Reserach: Patients Teaching Physicians about Asthma through Video Diaries.


Carlos Y. Flores Indigenous Video, Development and Shared Anthropology: A Collaborative Experience with Maya-Q'eqchi' Filmmakers in Post-War Guatemala.


Dianne Stadhams Look and Learn: A Role for Visual Ethnography in the Elimination of Poverty.


Jayasinhji Jhala In a Time of Fear and Terror: Seeing, Assessing, Assisting, Understanding and Living the Reality and Consequences of Disaster.


Nelle Steele & Tracey Lovejoy Engaging our Audience Through "Photo Stories."


Sarah Pink In and Out of the Academy: Video Ethnography of the Home.

Book and Film Reviews

Nandini Sikand Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye D. Ginsberg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin


Steve Caton Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography. John Ibson.


Anne Marie Leshkowich Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry. Bonnie Adrian.


Veronica Davidov Luchino Visconti. 3rd. Edition. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Victoria Saxton Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and News. Directed by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick


Suzanne Bessenger We Homes Chaps. Directed by Kesang Tseten.


Nicole Constable Chain of Love. Directed by Marije Meerman.