3. Visual anthropology logically proceeds from the
belief that culture is manifested through visible
symbols embedded in gestures,
ceremonies, rituals, and artifacts situated in
constructed and natural environments.
4. V I S U A L S Y M B O L S
GESTURES CERIMONIES RITUALS ARTIFACTS
CULTURE
6. Culture is conceived of as manifesting itself in
scripts with plots involving actors and actresses
with lines, costumes, props, and settings.
The cultural self is the sum of the scenarios in
which one participates.
7. V I S U A L S Y M B O L S
GESTURES CERIMONIES RITUALS ARTIFACTS
CULTURE
CULTURAL SELF
LINES COSTUMES PROPS SETTINGS
M A N I F E S T I N G P L O T S
9. Ethnographers employ photographs in the field to
induce responses in an interview. The primary
function of photographs taken in the field is as an
aide-de-memoire, to help reconstitute events in the
mind of the ethnographer.
10. V I S U A L S Y M B O L S
GESTURES CERIMONIES RITUALS ARTIFACTS
CULTURE
CULTURAL SELF
LINES COSTUMES PROPS SETTINGS
M A N I F E S T I N G P L O T S
12. On a formal level, photographs taken by
anthropologists are indistinguishable from the
snapshots or artistically intended images taken by
tourists-that is, there is no discernible
anthropological photographic style.
14. If one can see culture, then researchers should be
able to employ audiovisual technologies to record
it as data amenable to analysis and presentation.
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