Understanding Social Images

Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford until he passed away in 2020. He was a pioneer in integrating visual approaches into the mainstream of social and cultural anthropology. With Howard Morphy, he edited the influential volume Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1999).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on TextPart I: IntroductionsIntroduction: Tracing a TrajectoryDavid Zeitlyn and Chihab El KhachabChapter 1. Visual Anthropology: Image, Object and InterpretationPart II: Raju and His FriendsChapter 2. Forty-Minute Fieldwork: 2a Raju Film Synopsis as Box InsertChapter 3. Reclaiming a Soul Stolen by the CameraChapter 4. Revisiting RajuPart III: Photo-Elicitation and Image AnalysisChapter 5. Analysing ImagesChapter 6. Photography, Memory, and Affect: Two Fragments from the History of an Indian City Chapter 7. Slow Research: Exploring One’s Own Visual ArchivePart IV: Archives and Visual ResearchChapter 8. An Anthropologist in the Film Archives: Interdisciplinary ApproachesChapter 9. Visual Anthropology: Image Technologies in the FieldChapter 10. What Can We Learn from Visual Methods?Afterword: After Marcus: Visual Methods, Visual PedagogiesHoward MorphyIndex

“This book ambitiously addresses a wide array of topics, including ethical issues and presents a diverse range of perspectives.” • Aleksandra Gracjasz, Leiden University