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    Visual Ethnography for Designers

    Understand the design context
    by
    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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