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Author Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992.

Title Visual anthropology : photography as a research method / John Collier, Jr., and Malcolm Collier.

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1986]
©1986

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.0208 C699V    Check Shelf
Edition Revised and expanded edition.
Description xvii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents The challenge of observation and the nature of photography -- The camera in the field -- Orientation and rapport -- Photographing the overview : mapping and surveying -- The cultural inventory -- Photographing technology -- Photographing social circumstance and interaction -- Interviewing with photographs -- Psychological significance and overtones of visual imagery in projective interviewing -- Risks to rapport in photographing probing -- Film and video -- Film and video in field research -- Ethnographic film and its relationship to film for research -- Principles of visual research -- Analysis of still and moving images -- Practical procedures in analysis -- Finding patterns and meaning -- Making conclusions -- Technical considerations in visual anthropology.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 239-242.
Note Includes index.
Subject Photography in ethnology.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Added Author Collier, Malcolm, 1948-
ISBN 0826308988
9780826308986
0826308996 paperback
9780826308993 paperback
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