visual ethnography – The Anthropology Newspaper

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…

Post date 10th July 2024
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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…

Post date 7th July 2024
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Announcement: VAoJ @Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture 上智大学比較文化研究所「The Tachinomi Project」July 17, 2024

Dowload flyer here: https://www.icc-sophia.com/_files/ugd/2edff9_6a975eb58ccc4236ad4014881870fc43.pdf SOPHIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE CULTURE: https://www.icc-sophia.com/

Post date 27th June 2024
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56: So on this Day I will wake up early to do a zoom guest lecture at 8:00 AM (Japan time)…

“Introduction to Visual Anthropology: Focus on Photo-ethnography.” The first half of the lecture will be about Visual Anthropology in general; the second half will be about my Tachinomiya…

Post date 18th April 2023
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This is what replaced Tenbun:「”Takoyaki/side dishes standing bar Peke x Peke”」

Tenbun closed on March 28, 2020. The space it occupied was empty for a year and a half. Then on October 10, 2021, a new shop opened, Peke…

Post date 28th January 2023
Post author By Unknown

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/…

Post date 24th October 2022
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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…

Post date 23rd October 2022
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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…

Post date 22nd October 2022
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Announcement and Preview: “What the Future of Anthropological Research Should Look/Sound/Feel Like: A Visual Ethnography of a Standing Drink Bar in Japan”

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:…

Post date 3rd October 2022
Post author By Unknown

Understanding the Shaman’s Tribulations

Understanding the Shaman’s Tribulations – By Taba Menia – The scholarship of shamanism is closely related to ideas about traditional healing and their knowledge. Found across the world…

Post date 15th June 2022
Post author By Guest Blogger

(Almost) Native Ethnography Meets the Heat of the Tunisian Desert

Post date 29th March 2022
Post author By a Guest Blogger

My journey in applied anthropology

From a graduate who thought it was a great idea to study cultural anthropology during an economic crisis to any anthropology student freaking out and wondering ‘…what’s next!?!’ By…

Post date 5th November 2021
Post author By standplaatswereld

Only Half the Story – Rethinking the Relationship Between Digital Ethnographers and Their Devices*

Franziska Weidle** “Digital cinema is pre-computational” – from Quelic Berga’s presentation at ECREA 2018; author of original image: DRs Kulturarvsprojekt; title: Steenbeck…

Post date 28th January 2021
Post author By digitalethnography

The Fear of Dahalo Bandits on a Drive Through the Alaotra Night (Madagascar)

Post date 30th November 2020
Post author By Tony Waters

What does a Chicken, Drums, Whiskey, Gossip, and International Diplomacy have in common?

Post date 29th September 2020
Post author By Christina L. Quigley

Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]

[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy…

Post date 15th July 2020
Post author By Footnotes Editor

Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]

[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy’s research over the past thirty years…

Post date 15th July 2020
Post author By footnotes

Invitation to Covidentities 2020

Welcome to this year’s visual anthropology screening and an exciting collection of creative, engaged and always personal projects by our visual anthropology students. This year our stude…

Post date 28th May 2020
Post author By ukvisualanth

Techologically Ill wins Hugh Brody Visual Anthropology Prize 2019

Noemie Degiorgis’ transformative short documentary, Technologically Ill, won the Hugh Brody Visual Anthropology Prize at this year’s visual anthropology screening, Resolutionaries. …

Post date 22nd June 2019
Post author By ukvisualanth

Resolutionaries 2019

Matt Rose introduces the event with a poem. Welcome and thank you for coming. Before the films get up and running I’d like to invite us all…

Post date 22nd June 2019
Post author By ukvisualanth

What the Camera Does – #RoR2018

Two men mount the security grates over what will be the windows of my house. Title: La sécuriser. Photo Credit: Dick Powis. 2018 This series – #ROR2018 –…

Post date 18th July 2018
Post author By Dick

That’s Enough about Tim Ingold!: A Millennial’s Response

[This post is adapted and updated from a paper presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder graduate student conference, “The Ethnographic Turn” in 2016. I am indebted to…

Post date 29th June 2018
Post author By Dick Powis

Filming Future Imaginaries in Kurdistan #VisualANTH

It was during my fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, when I started seeing Kobane popping up everywhere in the city. Hair salons, murals, restaurants, travel agencies and even…

Post date 20th April 2017
Post author By Lana Askari

Photographic engagement: An alternative narrative of urban experiences

In 2014 I started exploring people’s lives in Parisian suburbs (banlieue)[1] through engaged and creative visual practices. Being an independent photographer, I wanted to see how people’s experiences…

Post date 19th April 2017
Post author By Camilo Leon-Quijano