Looking at Whales
Narration and the Organization of Visual Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365571 |
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| Authors | Peter R Grahame (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 782-806 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241618768071 |
| OpenAlex | W2804121908 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
While interest in visual representations of animals is well established in visual sociology, this article explores another set of possibilities connected with practices of looking at animals. In particular, I examine the social organization of visual experience in whale watching, with a focus on the role of narration. Using detailed transcriptions of whale watch narration as data, I argue that naturalists produce publicly witnessed trip sightings by coordinating what can be seen in the water with understandings of whales as objects of scientific research and environmental concern
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Focus (optics · Literature · Narrative · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Visual arts · Whale · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Marine animal studies overview · Ecology
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