Understanding Social Images : Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology

Banks, Marcus; Zeitlyn, David; Khachab, Chihab El

ISBN 10: 1836950063 / ISBN 13: 9781836950066

Editore: Berghahn Books, 2025

Riguardo questo articolo

Codice articolo 49781381-n

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Understanding Social Images : Essays on ...

Casa editrice: Berghahn Books

Data di pubblicazione: 2025

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: New

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto:

Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research. It discusses the meaning of anthropological research in film archives and illustrates how to analyse a wide range of visual material like maps, diagrams and enigmatic photographs. It situates Banks' work in contemporary visual anthropology and Howard Morphy’s Afterword explores how Banks’ work helped illuminate his own collaboration with the filmmaker Ian Dunlop in aboriginal Australia.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Chihab El Khachab is Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. His most recent publication is Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry (Cairo Press, 2021).

David Zeitlyn is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford. He collaborated with Marcus Banks on the 2nd edition of Visual Methods in Social Research (SAGE, 2015). He won the 2023 Curl Essay Prize awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford until he passed away in 2020. He was a pioneer in integrating visual approaches into the mainstream of social and cultural anthropology. With Howard Morphy, he edited the influential volume Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1999).