The Visual Anthropology of Japan: In and Outside the Classroom, Revisited
JAWS / AJJ Joint Conference 2025 Session 14 – Reflecting and Revisiting「Teaching Japan」 University of Hyogo – Kobe Campus for Commerce Building 5 April 5, 2025, 15:40 –…
Tag: multimodality
A call out to my friends and colleagues, visual and multimodal anthropologists, cultural anthropologists, photographers & sake and tachinomiya lovers in Tokyo and the surrounding area; VAoJ is making a rare appearance in Tokyo for a special lecture:「The Intersections of the Sensory, Multimodal and Ba: The Tachinomi Project」Please share and spread the word…
Check it out! July 17, 2024, 18:00-19:30 Room 402, 4F, Building 2 Sophia University, Tokyo Abstract:「The Tachinomi Project」is a visual ethnography based upon the con- vergence of social…
Standing Drink Bar「Tenbun」Old Boys Reunion 立ち呑みの居酒屋「天文」O.B. 会
We were on the bus, traveling through the borderlands between Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures when the imojōchū began to kick in. We had just finished an hour-and-a-half of…
The Many Modes of Ethnography
Download the transcript for this episode. This podcast episode talks to three anthropologists, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Rine Vieth, and Kara White, scholars working in three different parts of the…
Feeling Fieldwork: Affectivity, Co-creativity, and Multimodality in Ethnographic Music Production
Listen to ‘TUNDRA’ here [1] Feelings on/in Ethnographic Work Ethnographic work is an affective experience. While anthropological research methods have often focused on cataloging ethnograp…
2022 Fall Festival – I’m feeling like monochrome…
For (a lot) more information about the fall festival: 「Neighborhood Autumn Festival in Japan: A Multimodal Visual Ethnography and Performance」 https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2020/05/…
2022 Fall Festival – Day Two
See yesterday’s post for Day One Photos. Here’s Day Two… I’m already looking forward to next year! For (a lot) more information about the fall festival: 「Neighborhood Autumn…
2022 Fall Festival – Day One
After two long years of COVID-19 restrictions, we were finally able to hold our neighborhood fall festival this year. The program was cut back a bit – no…
Multimodality Through Twitter: Exploring the Alleyways of Seoul
Multimodality describes an anthropology across multiple media platforms–an anthropology that traverses film, photograph, theater, design, podcast, app and game (to name a few) as well as conventional…
Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…