This text provides an indispensible guide to the use and study of visual materials in empirical, qualitative field research. The book combines theory with practice and covers a wide range of media, including the Internet.
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between peoples across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declarat…
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between peoples across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declarat…
"Uses vernacular photography to highlight remarkable transformations and multiple forms of modernity that have flourished in Mizoram, Northeast India"--
In uncompleted circles, spirals and swirls : an introduction -- The present world of images : a theoretical background -- Sharpening ideas on the whetting stone : independent documentary practices, resistance and revolution -- The ghost of an image : on photographs, truth and co…