Significance of Visual Anthropology for First Nations and Indigenous Photo and Film

This essay explores the importance of visual anthropology in cross-cultural research, with a focus on indigenous and activist media, ethnographic filmmaking and theory, visual culture, and multimodal anthropology. It discusses the history of visual anthropology, the intersection of human perception and imagination with audio-visual media and ethnography, and the ethical and epistemological concerns of the field.

SIGNIFICANCE OF VISUAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Visual anthropology is defined as the encompasses with the two aim and objective which is
related with the production of anthropological media which may further include ethnographic
film, video, photography, drawing, interactive media, etc. It is also show the aspect which is
related with the anthropological analyse of media that include the film, video, photography,
drawing, etc. Conceptually, visual anthropology draws on the aspect which is based on the
theoretical and methodological connection show the aspect which is based on human perception
and ethnography. This may show the approach which is related with the explored work is visual
anthropologist has been contested, expanded and show the transformation that provide the aspect
of discipline that is related with anthropology. There are some of the production which is well
related with the issue of audio-visual material in the anthropological research which is well
related with the fact of overlook (Bessemans, & Mena, 2021). The technological advance in the
film and audio recording provide the aspect which is related with the mid twentieth century that
is well afforded in the context to anthropologist and the filmmaker with the enhance
opportunities in order to make the significance of visual anthropology. The essay usually covers
the importance or essentialities of visual anthropology which is well related with the cross
cultural research. The four central concern which is analysed with the essay is well focus on the
context which is well related that provide the aspect which show the approach which is showing
the aspect of ethnographic filmmaking and theory, indigenous and activist media, the study show
the aspect which is associated with the visual culture and multimodal anthropology (Boog 2018).
MAIN BODY
The visual anthropology major includes the both producing aspect which is related with the
anthropological media such as the ethnographic films, exhibition and photography which is well
related with the evaluation which is showing the aspect of part which is related with the media as
the part of anthropological enquiry (Just Gold: The Mavis Walley Collection, 2019). The concept
of the visual anthropology is usually outline the intersection of the study which is related with
the human perception and their imagination with the audio-visual media and ethnography. The
synthesis of the ethnographic film may show the lose aspect that is defined as the aspect of film
which is based upon the ethnographic fieldwork which has been the most well studies aspect
which is linked with the subfield which is well related with the research and their scholarship
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that provide the visual anthropologist that extend beyond the concept of filmmaking (Dix 2019).
The entry is usually primarily focus on the various aspect which is may help to explore the work
of visual anthropologist and their importance in the indigenous aspect that is contested, expanded
and transformed to the discipline of the anthropology (Representing financial inclusion: The
CGAP microfinance photo contest, 2013). It is also analysing the aspect which is well related
with the raise of essential issue in term of question or doubt that must be related with the
authorship, power and the representation of the culture, making the subfield more working when
they are related with the artist, filmmaker, photographer, curator and journalists among the many
others aspect which is associated with the term of visual anthropology (Garić‐Humphrey 2020).
There is four theme which is well focused on the aspect which is related with the comprise
of central concern of the visual anthropology in the current moments. Therefore, the ethnography
filmmaking and the theories show the aspect which is well related with the indigenous and the
media which is associated in the form of activist, visual culture and the various multimodal
anthropology. There is wide scope which is well related with the contemporary visual
anthropology that provide the range from the ethnographic media making in the term of
ethnographies of the media. It is common dominator which is associated in such field that is
related with the anthropology (Grimshaw, Owen, & Ravetz, 2021). The first and most significant
approach which is determined by the scholar is deliberately allow the field to make the
emphasise that the audio-visual recording and the visual practice has been and show the tool of
frequent analysis. In addition, it is also analysed that the they are merely and text based analysed.
Therefore, rather than outlining the sound recording, drawing and other supplement work which
is related with the working are evaluated and anthropologist emphasise the complementarity
towards the text and image. In addition, the each in the turn of concept which amplify the core
that is related with the others (Applied Visual Anthropology in the Progressive Era: The
Influence of Lewis Hine’s Child Labor Photographs, 2019). For example, there are some of the
visual anthropologist which may show the statement of argue with the text that not needed into
the primary model of communication that is related with the ethnographic knowledge for the
given project. It is also show the case which is well related with the selected individual that
provide the aspect which is related with the anthropological biography film that is related with
the Anna Grimshaw which is focus on the lives which has been selected individual in the small
fishing town in the Maine (Hansch, 2021). At last, the media are used to work together in order
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to make the amplification which is related with the anthropological analysis which comprised of
a film that is connected with the ethnographic as well as the written monograph that is based on
exorcisms and psychiatry in the Denmark (Høgel, 2018).
In the context to the history of visual anthropology is well known that they have particular
development that is related with the filmmaking which is well studies and usually illuminate the
one fundamental truth. The term of anthropology is also focus on the discipline of document and
studies that provide the brief of anthropological research which show their occurred since the
beginning of discipline as the core part of anthropological research which is well related with the
context of since the starting with the discipline at the ratio of turn to the twentieth century (The
Camera and the Anthropologist: Reflections on Photographic Agency, 2019). Therefore, the
photography is used to show the employment in such a way which is fine with the study of racial
type within the nascent field of the physical anthropology (Waltorp, 2018). It is also stated that
the biological evolution and variabilities show the aspect towards the human and eugenics. The
racist pseudo-science that is usually advocated for the selected breed of human which is chosen
for the use of photography in order to made classification and show the categorisation which is
colonised people their racial and ethnic type. The state sponsored practice are well focus on the
practice of using the context of photograph is well focused on the context of photograph which is
showing the use of photograph as the evidence which may provide the racial difference which is
lasted into the twentieth century with the aspect of grave and the violent complication
(Kortegast2019).
The prominence of the film which is well related with the history of visual anthropology
cannot overstate or show the fact that is based on photography and sound recording is also a
fundamental part of the ethnographic work. There is major concern which is related between the
ethnographic film is well related with the media practice, minorities and show the other cultural
activist community show the converge though the aspect which is related with the importance
that is related with the agreement around the question of power, cultural identity and colonial and
post-colonial situation (The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic
Film, 1995). It is well focus on the description which is influence the concept of parallax effect.
The parallax usually suggests the culture, indigenous media that offer the different angle of
vision (Kusimba, & Walz, 2018). They usually named as the ostensible subject that is related
with the fil, which may be indigenous or other non-majority cultural lives, the perspective is
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usually offer the diverge approach which is well related with the context that is show the
difference that arise between the implication as an outside and approach by the ethnographer and
an inside view of community and person within the community and social group are well
presented (MacDougall, 2020).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is well analysed that the visual anthropology is defined as the
separate field which is no longer needed. The several ethnographic film festival of indigenous
people are enhancing but not decrease. The related field of the anthropology, digital
anthropology and multimodal anthropology that seems to encompass much considered analytical
terrain which is well related with the visual. In addition, the early afford of the ethnographic
filmmaking to the self-critique is well focus on the indigenous media in the different embodied in
the call which is relate with the visual anthropology. The visual anthropology has always show
the concern which is related with the ethics and epistemology of ethnography and theory of
building.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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The Truth‐Fiction Spectrum of an Ethno‐Graphic Novel on the Sri Lankan Civil War and
Migration. Visual Anthropology Review, 35(1), 76-111.
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Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia‐Herzegovina. PoLAR: Political and Legal
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Production of Audio-visual Witnessing in Northern Sudan. Cambridge
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