1st Edition

Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology

Edited By Rupert Cox, Chris Wright Copyright 2025
294 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology approaches the question of method through conceptualisations of the visual world as light, sight, images and technologies of imaging that can be analysed and described through a range of visual practices in the course of anthropological research. The aim of the book is to move beyond making a case for the importance... Read more

Introduction: Re-Picturing Theory

Rupert Cox and Chris Wright

 

Section 1: How to See Through Images

 

1. Drawing

Haidy Geismar

 

2. Pen

Carol Hendrickson

 

3. Book

Chris Wright

 

4. Grid

Tristan Partridge

 

5. Map

Chitra Venkataramani

 

6. Aerial

Hagit Keysar

 

7. Sample

Peter Wade

 

8. Wave

Stefan Helmreich

 

9. Place

Dave Lewis

 

10. Medical

Christos Lynteris

 

11. Surface

Petra Tjitske Kalshoven

 

12. Design

Sarah Pink

 

13. Installation

George E. Marcus and Patricia Seed

 

14. Photo-elicitation

Liam Buckley

 

15. Shared

Karen Waltorp & Asma Mohammadzai Safi

 

Section 2: How to See Through Time

 

16. Phantasm

Khalil Habrih and Robert Desjarlais

 

17. Portrait

Marilyn Strathern

 

18. Trace

Karen Strassler

 

19. Re-Photography

Christian Vium

 

20. Subjectivities

Laurent Van Lancker

 

21. Montage

Judith Aston

 

Section 3: How to See (in) the Light

 

22. View

David Valentine

 

23. Nebula

Tim Ingold

 

24. Abstraction

Howard Morphy

 

25. Distortion

Nigel Rapport

 

26. Cuff

Erin Manning

 

27. Digital

Kate Hennessy, Hannah Turner, Jaimie Isaac, and Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien)

 

28. Light

Christian Suhr

 

29. Animation

Raminder Kaur (in conversation with Benjamin Worku-Dix, Karrie Fransman and Lula Mebrahtu)

Biography

Rupert Cox is Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK.

Chris Wright is Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK.