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Visual/Sound Methods

• Using film in ethnographic field research

Film is a powerful tool for both the process of understanding and exploration in fieldwork and for the representation of sensorial aspects of anthropological knowledge. It can capture much more than simply visual reality. Find out more...




• Sound and Social Research: Orality to Aurality

Sound in the social sciences is mainly an object of study articulated as the words of interviewees and typically transcribed as text. However, words and the sonic environment they are part of may not be simply reducible to written concepts. Find out more...

• Ethnofiction

  In the late 1950s’ visual anthropologist Jean Rouch started to experiment with fiction and projective improvisation in ethnographic films such as Jaguar (1957-1967), Moi, un noir (1957) and La pyramide humaine (1959). French film critics would call these films ‘etnofiction’. Find out more...

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