{"title":"The Material Politics of Graffiti Removal","authors":"Jérôme Denis, David Pontille","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2366675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2366675","url":null,"abstract":"While anti-graffiti policies have been examined in various places, the concrete conditions of graffiti removal remain largely unexplored. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article considers a g...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142215520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The People’s Garibaldi”: Twentieth-Century Politics of a Risorgimento Icon","authors":"Rosario Perricone","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2366678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2366678","url":null,"abstract":"Garibaldi epitomizes the Italian Risorgimento also on an iconographical level. With particular reference to Sicily in the 20th century, this article aims at analyzing first some aspects of an often...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142215517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Into the Twentieth Century: Science and Entertainment, Two Realms Apart?","authors":"Paul Hockings","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2366652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2366652","url":null,"abstract":"The year 1895 saw a multitude of crucial inventions worldwide, one of which was the cinema. Within a few years it had become the basis of a major entertainment industry, though documentary films oc...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142215518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Work of Craft in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Lai Xá Photography Village in Vietnam","authors":"Laurel Kendall, Nguyễn Văn Huy, Bùi Thu Hoà","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2333678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2333678","url":null,"abstract":"In Lai Xá Village, Vietnam, studio photography is the village handicraft. Counter to Walter Benjamin’s characterization of the click of a button, privileging eye over hand, but typical of many craf...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemology of the Ethnographic Image: Hybridizing Genre in South Sudan’s Autobiographical Cinema","authors":"Addamms S. Mututa","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2334192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2334192","url":null,"abstract":"Many of us consider ethnographic and biographical films as fixed categories, serving differentiated knowledge schemas. Yet, in the context of autobiographical filmmaking, the categories overlap, an...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photographing the Igbo Funeral: The Materiality of its Performance","authors":"Okechukwu Nwafor","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2330320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2330320","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a re-engagement of my visual odyssey, verbal dialogues, texts, and proceedings that I have undertaken during participation in multiple burials and funeral events in past years in sout...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lesley Nicole Braun, Anna Magdalena Vollmer Mateus
{"title":"Contemporary Ethnographic Aesthetics: The TikTok Turn","authors":"Lesley Nicole Braun, Anna Magdalena Vollmer Mateus","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2330268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2330268","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores TikTok’s impact on the aesthetics of visual anthropology’s methods and highlights epistemic implications. TikTok engenders new inquiries regarding the position and role of res...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photo George, in Douala: One of the Earliest Photo Studios in Cameroon","authors":"Jürg Schneider","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2340375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2340375","url":null,"abstract":"The study of one of Cameroon’s first permanent photo studios, Photo George in Douala, reveals a story of migration, social mobility, intellectual ambition, and a special ability to adapt to a chall...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Crossover: Integrating Indian Sign Language with the Mudras in an Indian Classical Dance Performance Creation","authors":"Methil Devika, Babitha Justin","doi":"10.1080/08949468.2024.2319017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2319017","url":null,"abstract":"Indian classical dance uses a variety of non-verbal communication devices, with gestures called hasta or mudra being one of the most ancient sign languages powerful to transmit the meaning of the l...","PeriodicalId":44055,"journal":{"name":"Visual Anthropology","volume":"217 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141148170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}