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 –…
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 –…
On January 15, 2025, from 8:00 – 10:00 AM, we (the shrine elders and the recruited volutnteer/visual anthropologist) held the Tondo Matsuri at our local shrine, Ubusuna Jinja,…
With the ubiquity of the Internet and the overwhelming number of screens that mediate our daily practices, the predominance of the image in daily life is indisputable. The…
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…
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…
SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies University of Central Arkansas, USA Session 7.1 (Virtual) October 8, 2022 9:30-10:45 AM (Central Daylight Time) 11:30 PM-12:45 AM (Japan Standard Time) Abstract:…
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post as read by Ritwik Banerji Sensory ethnography continually emphasizes …
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – a focus in anthropology that tends to deemphasize…
Not all experimentation is ethnographic. Not all ethnography is experimental. The intersection of ethnography and experimentation collapses into a black hole with a fluctuating event horizon, swallo…
Hannah Knox, UCL Anthropology When I was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester in the late 1990s I recall being introduced by John Gledhill to something called…
Thorsten Gieser, Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Kulturwissenschaft, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany A winter’s day, in a forest in central Germany. At dusk, more than fifty hunte…
As a mobile media practitioner interested in mediated everyday experience and urban space, my use of technology for collecting data, sharing impressions and observing cultural practices has sh…