The anthropological study of visual communication and the use of visual media in anthropology.
This page was last updated on October 10th, 2008
This page was last updated on October 10th, 2008
Visual Anthropology (from Cultural Anthropology)
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Arctic Circle's Museum of Art,
Photography, and anthropology of the Arctic Circle. Contains virtual museum, natural resources, history, culture, social equity, environmental justice, and Arctic forum.
Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian
Presented by the American Memory, Library of Congress. Contains digital reproductions of photogravures from portfolios of the North American Indian.
Richard Chalfen
Features teaching, publications, on-going research on home media and Japanese culture conducted by Temple University and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Asienhaus Essen: Exhibition of Photography
Photos of truck painting in Pakistan. An article by Martin Sökefeld that describes how trucks not only carry the loads but also the symbols, dreams, and idols of the population.
I.U.A.E.S. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Offers history, executive board, oganisation, newsletter, commisions, and race statement.
CVA - NewsNet
Commission on Visual Anthropology. Contains information, newsletter, publications, events, countries, and links.
Visualanthropology.net
Provides a visual on-line resource containing scientific journals, news, courses, workshops, and links.
Web Archive in Visual Anthropology
Features out-of-print and unpublished materials for teaching and research.
Society for Visual Antropology
Provides a section of the American Anthropological Association, promoting the study of visual representation, and media. Contains publications, subscription, member's forum, links, and contact.
Culturefocus
Provides travel photos taken in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, India, Nepal, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and on safaris in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia). Includes pictures, culture, and history.
Fish Camp - A Living Legend in a Vanishing Frontier
Presents a documentary photo essay of Florida Fish camps. Contains a site map, sequence of images, links to books about photography, webrings, and awards.
Anthropology Film Center
Offers ethnographic, and documentary film training program. Includes four-month program information, summer 2003 workshops, application for admission, and calendar.
Ethnographic Portraits: The Crees of Northern Québec
Photographic essay about the natives of the Mistissini Reserve, focusing on changes caused by hydroelectric development.
One World Photography
Frontline Photojournalism Service covering photos specializing in war, human rights issues, politics, refugees, and development within Asia and Africa. Contains gallery, services available, links and contact information.
Understanding What We See
A paper by W. Matthew Ball (5/97)studying three subdivisions of visual anthropology, still photography, film, and computer multimedia applications.
Fighters on the Farmfront Home
An Online Exhibit from the Oregon State University archiving Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service 1943-1947.
CASC-Visual Anthropology Online
A resource for information about communicating anthropology to the public, and through science media.
Nepal - Tibet : from Kathmandu to Lhassa and back
Contains images by Jean-Francois Berthet of Nepal, and Tibet. Includes photos of Kathmandu, landscapes, Potala, monks, monastaries, statues, paintings, rain, people, and windows.
Peter Langer - Associated Media Group
Provides stock photography of ethnic groups from 120 different countries. Contains image library, services, print material, and event organization.
The Peoples of The World Foundation
Provides education resource to the world's minority peoples by providing education, in words and pictures, about them.
SIGHTS Visual Anthropology Forum
Collection of working papers from a workshop organized by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research.
Virtual Snow: Edmund Snow Carpenter
Features information on Edmund Snow Carpenter. Includes a full digital publication of "Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!" Also contains biographical and bibliographical information.
Anthropological Documentaries
Information about film projects by Wendy van Wilgenburg. Includes bibliographic references, and information on visual anthropology as a discipline.
Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Contains a gallery of Curtis' photography from the Smithsonian. Slide show format.
VISAN: studio of visual anthropology, Tomsk
Anthropology photos by Andrei Filtchenko. A slideshow format.
Aztec Environmental Photography
Photos by Leslie Plaza Johnson based on the examination of cultural constructions based on visual religious symbols. Offers works, photos, and links.
South African Museum - Encounters with Photography
Contains the photography of Henri-Alexandre Junod documenting the Thonga of Mozambique.
Triton Films
An independent film production, and distribution company offering socio-cultural documentaries, ethnographic films, and experimental fiction films. Resource for documentary, anthropology, education, and research.
Photoethnography.com
Sociocultural anthropologist Karen Nakamura offers a resource for photo-ethnographers. Contains gallery, techniques, equipment, courses, and links.
Visual Anthropology Resources
Links to web sites of interest to Visual Anthropology.
Australian Center for the Moving Image
ACMI offers a range of exhibitions, screenings, education, production, and events. Contains collections, exhibitions, and program information.
American Indian Studies
Dedicated to the presentation of artwork, photographs, video, and sound recordings, which reflect the history, culture of Native Americans in North America, and Central America.
Newcastlelight co. uk
Photography of North Staffordshire, UK from the research programs in photography, visual ethnography, and philosophy at Staffordshire University.
Mateo's Anthropology Page
Visual anthropology essays and links.
1800s Nez Perce Photography
Contains historical archive photography from Smithsonian Institution, Montana Historical Society, Nez Perce National Historic Park, Idaho Historical Society, and private collections.
The Latin American Video Archive
Authentic films and videotapes which depict their histories, and cultures from a Latin American perspective. Contains featured titles, about LAVA, reviews, and contact information.
Exposing Yourself
A paper by Jay Ruby that explores the relationships between reflexivity, anthropology, and film.
HADDON
University of Oxford online catalogue of archival ethnographic films, and film footage.
The Teaching of Visual Anthropology
Jay Ruby and Richard Chalfen challenge the idea that film is art and science is an objective chronicler of reality in an article that discusses the difficulties experienced in the development of a truly anthropological cinema.
Cine-Trance
Reviews the work of Anya Bernstein. Features descriptions of her ethnographic documentaries, articles, and field notes.
Structure and Meaning in Human Settlement
An article written by Edmund Carpenter of a High Arctic settlement on Zhokov Island, Russian Siberia.
Visual Research Methods
Marcus Banks describes methodology and issues of documentation in this article published in the journal Social Research Update in 1995.
Working Images
Contains abstracts from the conference exploring anthropology, and visual anthropology. Includes introduction, themes, photography, art exhibitions, and ethnographic films.
University of Adelaide Visual Anthropology Lybrary Guides
Offers film and photographic catalogs, introductory texts, and web resources in anthropology. Provides resource services, anthropology news, and library tutorials.
Photography, and anthropology of the Arctic Circle. Contains virtual museum, natural resources, history, culture, social equity, environmental justice, and Arctic forum.
Presented by the American Memory, Library of Congress. Contains digital reproductions of photogravures from portfolios of the North American Indian.
Features teaching, publications, on-going research on home media and Japanese culture conducted by Temple University and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Photos of truck painting in Pakistan. An article by Martin Sökefeld that describes how trucks not only carry the loads but also the symbols, dreams, and idols of the population.
Offers history, executive board, oganisation, newsletter, commisions, and race statement.
Commission on Visual Anthropology. Contains information, newsletter, publications, events, countries, and links.
Provides a visual on-line resource containing scientific journals, news, courses, workshops, and links.
Features out-of-print and unpublished materials for teaching and research.
Provides a section of the American Anthropological Association, promoting the study of visual representation, and media. Contains publications, subscription, member's forum, links, and contact.
Provides travel photos taken in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, India, Nepal, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and on safaris in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia). Includes pictures, culture, and history.
Presents a documentary photo essay of Florida Fish camps. Contains a site map, sequence of images, links to books about photography, webrings, and awards.
Offers ethnographic, and documentary film training program. Includes four-month program information, summer 2003 workshops, application for admission, and calendar.
Photographic essay about the natives of the Mistissini Reserve, focusing on changes caused by hydroelectric development.
Frontline Photojournalism Service covering photos specializing in war, human rights issues, politics, refugees, and development within Asia and Africa. Contains gallery, services available, links and contact information.
A paper by W. Matthew Ball (5/97)studying three subdivisions of visual anthropology, still photography, film, and computer multimedia applications.
An Online Exhibit from the Oregon State University archiving Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service 1943-1947.
A resource for information about communicating anthropology to the public, and through science media.
Contains images by Jean-Francois Berthet of Nepal, and Tibet. Includes photos of Kathmandu, landscapes, Potala, monks, monastaries, statues, paintings, rain, people, and windows.
Provides stock photography of ethnic groups from 120 different countries. Contains image library, services, print material, and event organization.
Provides education resource to the world's minority peoples by providing education, in words and pictures, about them.
Collection of working papers from a workshop organized by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research.
Features information on Edmund Snow Carpenter. Includes a full digital publication of "Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!" Also contains biographical and bibliographical information.
Information about film projects by Wendy van Wilgenburg. Includes bibliographic references, and information on visual anthropology as a discipline.
Contains a gallery of Curtis' photography from the Smithsonian. Slide show format.
Anthropology photos by Andrei Filtchenko. A slideshow format.
Photos by Leslie Plaza Johnson based on the examination of cultural constructions based on visual religious symbols. Offers works, photos, and links.
Contains the photography of Henri-Alexandre Junod documenting the Thonga of Mozambique.
An independent film production, and distribution company offering socio-cultural documentaries, ethnographic films, and experimental fiction films. Resource for documentary, anthropology, education, and research.
Sociocultural anthropologist Karen Nakamura offers a resource for photo-ethnographers. Contains gallery, techniques, equipment, courses, and links.
Links to web sites of interest to Visual Anthropology.
ACMI offers a range of exhibitions, screenings, education, production, and events. Contains collections, exhibitions, and program information.
Dedicated to the presentation of artwork, photographs, video, and sound recordings, which reflect the history, culture of Native Americans in North America, and Central America.
Photography of North Staffordshire, UK from the research programs in photography, visual ethnography, and philosophy at Staffordshire University.
Visual anthropology essays and links.
Contains historical archive photography from Smithsonian Institution, Montana Historical Society, Nez Perce National Historic Park, Idaho Historical Society, and private collections.
Authentic films and videotapes which depict their histories, and cultures from a Latin American perspective. Contains featured titles, about LAVA, reviews, and contact information.
A paper by Jay Ruby that explores the relationships between reflexivity, anthropology, and film.
University of Oxford online catalogue of archival ethnographic films, and film footage.
Jay Ruby and Richard Chalfen challenge the idea that film is art and science is an objective chronicler of reality in an article that discusses the difficulties experienced in the development of a truly anthropological cinema.
Reviews the work of Anya Bernstein. Features descriptions of her ethnographic documentaries, articles, and field notes.
An article written by Edmund Carpenter of a High Arctic settlement on Zhokov Island, Russian Siberia.
Marcus Banks describes methodology and issues of documentation in this article published in the journal Social Research Update in 1995.
Contains abstracts from the conference exploring anthropology, and visual anthropology. Includes introduction, themes, photography, art exhibitions, and ethnographic films.
Offers film and photographic catalogs, introductory texts, and web resources in anthropology. Provides resource services, anthropology news, and library tutorials.
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