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date: 05 November 2024

Photography and the Ethnographic Methodlocked

Photography and the Ethnographic Methodlocked

  • Sasanka PereraSasanka PereraSouth Asian University

Summary

Photography has had a close association with anthropology from the beginning of the discipline. However, this proximity has not been as evident since the 1960s. Despite this seeming discomfort with photographs in contemporary social anthropology in particular, they can play a useful role in social research in general and social anthropology in particular as both sources of information and objects of research. This is not to about using photographs as a decorative element in a written text as is often done. What is useful is to see how photographs can become audible taking into account when and where they were taken and by whom. To do this however, methodological considerations of photography needs to travel from the sub-disciplinary domains of visual sociology and visual anthropology into the mainstreams of these disciplines as well as into the midst of the social science enterprise more generally.

Subjects

  • Education, Cultures, and Ethnicities
  • Education and Society

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