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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Visual anthropology"”.
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Storytelling and Self in Public Broadcast: A Visual Ethnography of Rocky Mountain PBS
… informed my theoretical background: embodiment, visual anthropology, the public sphere, practice theory, and phenomenology. Rocky Mountain PBS, a 60-year-old broadcast institution, served as my research site during the summer of 2018. In my thesis, I overviewed the history of RMPBS and …
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Visual Anthropological Methods in Earthquake Risk Communication: A Transdisciplinary Approach
… dedicated to exploring the potential of audiovisual methods for novel approaches in the field of seismic risk communication. It confronts the shortcoming that disaster risk communication research and practice are still widely rooted in earlier outdated models of risk communication. …
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Il cinema in missione. La pratica cinematografica dei missionari italiani lungo il XX secolo tra apostolato e antropologia
… the relationship between missionary’s cinema and visual anthropology. The second part of the thesis includes the film cards of the missionary’s movies preserved in Italy: 339 cards of Italian movies and 149 cards of foreign movies placed in different archives and bureaus.
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… of the GLLM), while the photographs show the visual narrative. Both comprise the movement’s collective memory. To analyze these photographs, this thesis establishes a visual methodology based on techniques in cultural history and visual anthropology. Using these techniques, it performs a …
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ReportSiberia : deconstructing spatialized ideologies
… research. This thesis uses the power of a visual anthropology to go beyond a formal description of a place: a method that collages the Siberian geography. Through commenting on existing trends and making the aggregated systems of operation legible, a dialogue for negotiating the post-Soviet …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… bodies of anthropological research: a political anthropology interested in social movements, a visual anthropology interested in media production, and a broad theoretical anthropological interest in transformations of self, society, and culture through practice.</p>
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Testimony Knowledge: Indigenous Research of Land, Story and Visual Narrative/Filmmaking in Northeast China
… in territorial belonging, and how do Indigenous visual narratives reconstruct ethnic identities within the context of modernization? This study engages in a cross-disciplinary dialogue, integrating Indigenous studies, visual anthropology, and post-colonial theories. It draws on the works of …
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"Reforma urbana já"; "arroz, feijão, saúde e habitação" :A luta por moradia na grande João Pessoa
… half-open interviews, and counted on the audiovisual register of two occupations, one in the downtown of João Pessoa City (old building of the INSS, in the Ponto dos Cem Réis) and other (Community of the Cajueiro), next to the Beach "Praia do Jacaré", in the city of Cabedelo.The choice of the …
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The Documentary imagination: an investigation into the performative application of documentary film in scholarship.
… documentary film making in ethnography and visual anthropology underpinned by a positivist epistemology, but I suggest there are forms of reportage in literary and dramatic traditions as well as film that are more relevant to the possibility of an auto-ethnographic approach which applies …
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They didn't win the war : aesthetics and infrastructure in post-counterinsurgency Guatemala.
… studying, producing, and executing ethnographic visual-arts projects, my dissertation analyzes the sociocultural infrastructures intrinsic to sensorial forms of counterinsurgency that spread to the aesthetic regime in contemporary Guatemala. I focus on the historical moment in which …
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Indigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazonia
This paper seeks to explore the early twentieth century trend of ethnographic adventure filmmaking. A subgenre of the ethnographic film, these works blended ethnographic observations with scripted and staged adventure stories, advancing popular tropes of indigenous first contact and the superiority …
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Using Media-Based Representations of Reproductive Health Choices to Discuss the Real and Ideal Experiences of Latina Women
<p>This thesis is based on anthropological research conducted with Mexican and Salvadoran women living in the Washington Metropolitan area, regarding the support and obstacles they have faced when attempting to access reproductive health care services. Results are based on focus groups and …
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Filmmaker, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Negotiation of Identity in an Indigenous Film Festival
<p>Since colonial contact, indigenous peoples have been predominantly represented by community outsiders. As a result, native peoples have rarely had a primary, or even collaborative role, in the production of these representations. However, in the last two decades, there has been an unprecedented …
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Under the Radar: The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
… seriously, this work incorporates anarchist anthropology as both a theoretical and methodological imperative. I demonstrate that using a perspective that does not privilege the primacy of the ‘State’ reveals the formation of translocal identity as challenging and reshaping dominant …
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Kaupunkiviljelijöiden kokemuksia luonnonmukaisuudesta ja kontaktista maahan chileläisessä yhteisöpuutarhassa
Tässä tutkielmassa tarkastellaan yhteisöpuutarhan viljelijöiden kokemuksia luonnonmukaisuudesta ja kontaktista maahan Chilen pääkaupungissa Santiagossa. Tutkielman aineisto on kerätty etnografisin menetelmin käyttäen osallistuvaa havainnointia, haastatteluja sekä kollaboratiivista videokuvausta. …