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Visual Ethnography for Designers

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Prof. Nina Sabnani
IDC, IIT Bombay
Further Reading
 
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• Shane, the Lone Ethnographer: A Beginner's Guide to Ethnography
 

 

• Doing Visual Ethnography by Dr Sarah Pink
 

 

• Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method by John Collier
 

 

• Principles of Visual Anthropology edited by Paul Hockings
 

 

• Visual methods in social research by Marcus Banks
 

 

• I Swear I Saw This - Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own Hardcover – Dec 2011 by Michael Taussig (Author)
 

 

• Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice Paperback – 2013 by Wendy Gunn (Editor), Ton Otto (Editor), Rachel Charlotte Smith (Editor)
 

 

• Collaboration Through Craft Hardcover – 2013 by Helen Felcey (Editor), Amanda Ravetz (Editor), Alice Kettle (Editor)
 

 

• Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Paperback – 1999 by Vered Amit (Editor)
 

 

• Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture Paperback – 2013 by Tim Ingold (Author)
 

 

• Research Methods in Anthropology by H Russell Bernard
 


Learn more:
• Kaavad: A portable Shrine
https://www.dsource.in/resource/kaavad

• Ajrakh Printing: Traditional craft of block printing and dyeing of Kachchh
https://www.dsource.in/resource/ajrakh-block-printing-kutch-gujarat

• Zardozi: Stitches of Lucknow
https://www.dsource.in/resource/zardozi

• Making visual representations (studying society by producing images) Learn more at
https://www.dsource.in/case-study/intellectual-observer that examines how visual culture of a region transforms over a period of time. The researcher gathers information by creating photographs of artifacts found in public spaces (in this case temple gates and traffic police booths)

• Examining pre-existing visual representations
(studying images for information about society) Learn more at
https://www.dsource.in/resource/kaavad.
Here a film maker interested in traditional form of storytelling looks at Kaavad a portable, painted, wooden shrine, from Marwar region in Rajasthan.

• Collaborating with social actors in the production of visual representations (also known as participatory research). This blog is a great example of participatory research using visual methods
http://madeinkachchh.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/a-blockprint-universe-full-of-silhouette-buffaloes/

• David and Judith MacDougall’s film Photo Wallahs, on photographic practices in an Indian hill town, is a great example in this category. Read more about it here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/var.1992.8.2.96/abstract
http://www.electrostani.com/2012/01/notes-on-photo-wallahs-1992.html

• www.education-portal.com/academy/lesson/what-is-ethnography-
studying-cultural-phenomena.html#lesson

• http://vimeo.com/47027495 On ‘writing up’

• www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412970113/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1/177-8387064-9407433?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=16SW2EJ4C1CWP 9Z35732&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1535523702&pf_rd_i=0803937938

• www.uk.sagepub.com/gray/Website-material/Journals/qhr_wolcott.pdf

• www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/WQR/wolcott.pdf

• Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice Paperback – 2013
by Wendy Gunn (Editor), Ton Otto (Editor), Rachel Charlotte Smith (Editor)
http://www.amazon.in/Design-Anthropology-Practice-Wendy-Gunn/dp/0857853686/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419923324&sr=1-1

• Collaboration Through Craft Hardcover – 2013
by Helen Felcey (Editor), Amanda Ravetz (Editor), Alice Kettle (Editor)
http://www.amazon.in/Collaboration-Through-Craft-Helen-Felcey/dp/0857853910/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8qid=1419923334&sr=1-1

• I Swear I Saw This - Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own Hardcover –
Dec 2011 by Michael Taussig (Author)
http://www.amazon.in/Swear-Saw-This-Fieldwork-Notebooks/dp/0226789829/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419923342&sr=1-2

• Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture Paperback –  2013
by Tim Ingold (Author)
http://www.amazon.in/Making-Anthropology-Archaeology-Art-Architecture/dp/0415567238/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419923349&sr=1-1

• Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World
(European Association of Social Anthropologists) Paperback – 1999 by Vered Amit (Editor)
http://www.amazon.in/Constructing-Field-Ethnographic-Contemporary-Anthropologists/dp/0415198305/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419923360&sr=1-1

 

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