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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...
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.
The social life of an image approach builds on a conception of images as constructed and transformative representations of our ideas, our relationships, and ourselves. They are tools that travel, transform, and constantly change meaning and shape over space and time. Ascribing a social life to images does not assume that they are actors in ...
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.
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’.
31 mar 2023 · Because intentionality presumes a relation to a shared life-world, images are embedded in the intersubjectivity of social life. Collective imagination means lending images the status of ordinary life-worldly objects – objects that would be accepted as “real” by most social actors.
