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11 lis 2024 · Social anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the cultural properties of human societies. Topics include cultural norms, morals, laws and customs, and there is a...
20 lut 2020 · This paper presents a theoretical and methodological approach to analysing images in public space as part of a transformative visual dialogue in everyday life. Images are conceptualised through...
20 lut 2020 · Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of images is followed as they respond and borrow from one another in a continuous dialogue.
This entry examines the work anthropologists have done on, and with, photography. It surveys the conclusions anthropologists have reached about the social and cultural impacts of photography and discusses the multimodal experiments that define the use of photography in anthropology today.
11 maj 2020 · Thus, the social realist cult of coldness belied both its aesthetic and the utopian criticism implied in images of inequity and poverty. The ambiguity of the photograph can be read as capturing Simmel’s unavoidable ambiguity of social life, into which it potentially offers rich insights.
9 maj 2019 · Sociological ethnography has thus developed a prominent and intimate understanding of social life. On entering the field, researchers set up their toolboxes; most of the time comprising pens, notebooks, recorders, batteries, and photographic equipment.
13 cze 2019 · Even though the meanings and politics of building resilience in the face of catastrophic life events remain unclear, anthropologists are joining collaborative teams to grapple with urgent questions that pertain to people’s survival and their individual and social well-being.
