Visual Interventions

Applied Visual Anthropology

Edited by

Sarah Pink

Berghahn Books
New York Oxford
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List of Illustrations vii

List of Tables x

Acknowledgements xi

PART I INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Applied Visual Anthropology: Social
Intervention and Visual Methodologies 3
Sarah Pink

Chapter 2 The Applied Visual Anthropology of

John Collier: A Photo Essay 29
Malcolm Collier

PART I I M E D I C I N E AND H E A L T H

Chapter 3 Combining the Applied, the Visual and

the Medical: Patients Teaching Physicians
with Visual Narratives 53
Richard Chalfen and Michael Rich

Chapter 4 Steps for the Future: HIV / AIDS, Media

Activism and Applied Visual Anthropology
in Southern Africa 71
Susan Levine

Chapter 5 Bodywork: Social Somatic Interventions

in the Operating Theatres of Invasive
Radiology 91
Christina Lammer

PART I I I T O U R I S M AND HERITAGE

Chapter 6 Look to Learn: A Role for Visual Ethnography

in the Elimination of Poverty 119
Dianne Stadhams
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Chapter 7 Archiving 'Heritage', Reconstructing the

'Area': Conducting Audiovisual Ethnography
in EU-sponsored Research 143
Vassiliki Yiakoumaki

PART I V CONFLICT AND D I S A S T E R R E L I E F

Chapter 8 Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient

Applied Visual Anthropology in the
'Media Invisible' Villages of Western India 177
Jayasinhji Jhala

Chapter 9 The Hunters Redux: Participatory and Applied

Visual Anthropology with the Botswana San 191
Matthew Durington

Chapter 10 Sharing Anthropology: Collaborative Video

Experiences among Maya Film-makers in
Post-war Guatemala 209
Carlos Y. Flores

PART V C O M M U N I T Y F I L M - M A K I N G AND E M P O W E R M E N T

Chapter 11 The Rhythm of Our Dreams: A Proposal for

an Applied Visual Anthropology 227
Ana Martnez Perez

Chapter 12 Performing Urban Collectivity:

Ethnography of the Production Process of a
Community-based Film Project in Brussels 247
An van. Dienderen

PART V I INDUSTRY

Chapter 13 Video Ethnography under Industrial Constraints:

Observational Techniques and Video Analysis 273
Werner Sperschneider

Chapter 14 Engaging Our Audience through Photo Stories 295

Tracey Lovejoy and Nelle Steele

Notes on Contributors 315

Index 319