TY - JOUR AU - Kharel, Dipesh PY - 2015/12/07 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Visual Ethnography, Thick Description and Cultural Representation JF - Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology JA - Dhaulagiri VL - 9 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.3126/dsaj.v9i0.14026 UR - https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/DSAJ/article/view/14026 SP - 147-160 AB - 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. ER -