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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...
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.
Recent years have seen a tendency for discussions of social anthropology and human origins to take place in a somewhat ahistorical conceptual space: a space in which the subdisciplines encounter one another in a timeless theoretical present; even, one might almost say, an ‘ethnographic present’.
11 mar 2015 · It examines a number of theoretical trends in anthropology concerning art production, perception, and circulation. Art objects are considered live social beings whose aesthetic value, significance, and emotional efficacy are subject to change in the course of their mobility through time and space.
2 kwi 2021 · They lead a social life, being invoked in sociality, directly or ultimately deriving from influence effected through social interaction and receiving their cogency from resonance – and at times dissonance – with experienced social conditions.
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.
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...
