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- CASC-Visual Anthropology Online - A resource for information about communicating anthropology to the public, and through science media.
- 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.
- Visual Anthropology Resources - Links to web sites of interest to Visual Anthropology.
- Visual Anthropology Review - Official publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology. Includes subscription information and tables of contents from all issues.
- 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.
- Working Images - Contains abstracts from the conference exploring anthropology, and visual anthropology. Includes introduction, themes, photography, art exhibitions, and ethnographic films.
- 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.
- VISAN: Studio of Visual Anthropology, Tomsk - Anthropology photos by Andrei Filtchenko in slideshow format.
- Visual Anthropology - Offers an overview of the scope of the publication. Features editorial information, including submission details and subscription information.
- SIGHTS Visual Anthropology Forum - Collection of working papers from a workshop organized by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research.
Wikipedia Articles
- Visual anthropology - Visual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that developed out of the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and since the mid-1990s, new media. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ethnographic film, visual anthropology also encompasses the anthropological study of representation, including areas such ...
- USC Center for Visual Anthropology - The USC Center for Visual Anthropology or CVA, is a part of the department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. It was created by anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff and was directed by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch from 1983 until his death in 1994.
- Visual culture - Visual culture is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images. Among cultural studies theorists working with contemporary culture, this often overlaps with film studies and the study of television, although it can also include video game studies, comics, traditional artistic media, advertising, the Internet, and any ...
- Structural anthropology - Structural anthropology is based on Claude Levi-Strauss's idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites—such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death—and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites. "From the very start," he wrote, "the process of visual perception makes use of binary oppositions.
- Margaret Mead Film Festival - The Margaret Mead Film Festival is an annual film festival held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The festival specializes in ethnographic films or the field of visual anthropology.