Stephanie Sadre‐orafai
Biographic Data
| ID | 78542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Sadre‐orafai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadre‐orafai |
| SIGNATURE | ORAFAI S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7360-517X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translucent Methods
Turning Points
This dialogue is part of a cross‐platform collaboration with Visible Language , the oldest peer‐reviewed design journal. Animated by questions about visual methods, genre, form, and analysis—how they differ or converge between design and anthropology, what each field has to offer the other—it contextualizes current issues in academic journal publishing from the perspective of visual studies, social science, and design, fields that do not drive co…
Reframing Activism, Labor, and Collaborative Futures in Visual Anthropology
Reframe, Redesign, Realign
Empathy, Care, and Dialogue
Typologies, Typifications, and Types
This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production, considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from the tacit, phenomenological perspective of everyday practices of typification. Proposing what an "anthropology of types," broadly construed and across these two scales, might look like, I examine the histories and uses of types and typological thinking in anthropology, hi…
Critical Visions and the Unsteady In-Between
Models, Measurement, and the Problem of Mediation in the New York Fashion Industry
From age and body measurements to the number and kinds of models featured in advertising campaigns and runway presentations, numbers are a seemingly less subjective way of monitoring aesthetic shifts and representational imbalances in the fashion industry. Yet an ethnographic investigation of how modeling agents actually use numbers in their everyday practices reveals something different. In this essay, I situate agents’ numerical performances wi…
Typologies, Typifications, and Types
This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production, considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from the tacit, phenomenological perspective of everyday practices of typification. Proposing what an "anthropology of types," broadly construed and across these two scales, might look like, I examine the histories and uses of types and typological thinking in anthropology, hi…
Critical Visions and the Unsteady In-Between
Reframe, Redesign, Realign
Models, Measurement, and the Problem of Mediation in the New York Fashion Industry
From age and body measurements to the number and kinds of models featured in advertising campaigns and runway presentations, numbers are a seemingly less subjective way of monitoring aesthetic shifts and representational imbalances in the fashion industry. Yet an ethnographic investigation of how modeling agents actually use numbers in their everyday practices reveals something different. In this essay, I situate agents’ numerical performances wi…
Turning Points
This dialogue is part of a cross‐platform collaboration with Visible Language , the oldest peer‐reviewed design journal. Animated by questions about visual methods, genre, form, and analysis—how they differ or converge between design and anthropology, what each field has to offer the other—it contextualizes current issues in academic journal publishing from the perspective of visual studies, social science, and design, fields that do not drive co…
Models, Measurement, and the Problem of Mediation in the New York Fashion Industry
From age and body measurements to the number and kinds of models featured in advertising campaigns and runway presentations, numbers are a seemingly less subjective way of monitoring aesthetic shifts and representational imbalances in the fashion industry. Yet an ethnographic investigation of how modeling agents actually use numbers in their everyday practices reveals something different. In this essay, I situate agents’ numerical performances wi…
Critical Visions and the Unsteady In-Between
Reframe, Redesign, Realign
Empathy, Care, and Dialogue
Typologies, Typifications, and Types
This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production, considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from the tacit, phenomenological perspective of everyday practices of typification. Proposing what an "anthropology of types," broadly construed and across these two scales, might look like, I examine the histories and uses of types and typological thinking in anthropology, hi…
Translucent Methods
Turning Points
This dialogue is part of a cross‐platform collaboration with Visible Language , the oldest peer‐reviewed design journal. Animated by questions about visual methods, genre, form, and analysis—how they differ or converge between design and anthropology, what each field has to offer the other—it contextualizes current issues in academic journal publishing from the perspective of visual studies, social science, and design, fields that do not drive co…
Reframing Activism, Labor, and Collaborative Futures in Visual Anthropology
Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works)