Grimshaw A., Ravetz A. (eds.) Visualizing Anthropology

Bristol: Intellect, 2004. — 174 p.Visualizing Anthropology has its origins in a convergence of interests and series of collaborations that developed at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. As lecturers at the Centre we had become concerned about the types of visual practice that constituted the contemporary field. We were aware from our own experience of ethnographic research that the visual forms at our disposal (documentary film and, to a lesser degree, stills photography), had begun to feel limiting to the kind of anthropology we wanted to pursue. The recent opening up of a shared ethnographic space, notably between anthropology and art, sharpened our sense that ways of working relevant to us as anthropologists existed beyond our own disciplinary boundaries. We felt that these should not be ignored by a discipline committed to the study of visuality and visual practice.