Critical Review of Visual Anthropology

Bibliographic Data

ID21260107
AuthorsArjang Omrani (0000-0001-6289-4263, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume13
Issue1
Pages105-122
Publication date2023-03-09
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVISUAL REVIEW International Visual Culture Review / Revista Internacional de Cultura Visual (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2695-9631 • E-ISSN: 2695-9631
PublisherVisualcom Scientific Publications SL (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.37467/revvisual.v13.3382
OpenAlexW4323669182
LanguageEN
References cited20

This article aims to develop a critical overview of visual anthropology by exploring the main obstacles and pivotal challenges throughout its evolution. It explores the ongoing representational and logocentric orientations of mainstream anthropology that have caused the rejection of acknowledging audio-visual anthropology as valid academic work. Furthermore, by singling out the ocular-centric and visual realist tendencies that exist in visual anthropology, it is argued that, to some extent, it validates those criticisms and even has its roots in those representational and logocentric orientations. Within this article, a position is taken besides those who consider the 'sub-discipline' of visual anthropology as a critical approach to mainstream (social or cultural) anthropological studies. The arguments lead to the conclusion, suggesting that by distinguishing between ethnography and anthropology (Ingold: 2014 & 2017) a more diverse, creative, and comprehensive idea of audio-visual (multimodal) anthropology is probable

Anthropological linguistics · Anthropology of art · Applied anthropology · Applied linguistics · Contemporary art · Digital anthropology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Four field approach · Linguistics · Mainstream · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Visual anthropology · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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