Visual Ethnography, Thick Description and Cultural Representation
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Visual Ethnography, Thick Description, Photography and Ethnographic Film
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The purposes of this paper are threefold: to cover historical, theoretical and methodological overview of visual ethnography (photography and film) as a research tool in studying culture; to examine visual ethnography as a means of cultural representation, and to discuss visual ethnographic method with Clifford Geertz’s idea of “thick description”. I hope to bring some clarity and consensus to our understanding how visual ethnography can be an adequate research tool for “thick description” and a study of culture. Furthermore, in this paper, I begin by seeing visual ethnography in the context to visual anthropology, photography, ethnographic film, and semiotics.Downloads
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2015-12-07
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Kharel, D. (2015). Visual Ethnography, Thick Description and Cultural Representation. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 9, 147-160. https://doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v9i0.14026
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