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title: Visual & Digital Anthropology
description: This field explores how humans use visual media and digital technologies to communicate and construct culture. Learners will understand how to analyze digital communities, produce ethnographic media, and study the social impact of the internet and visual arts.
category: humanities
subcategory: anthropology
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/visual-and-digital-anthropology
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# Visual & Digital Anthropology

This field explores how humans use visual media and digital technologies to communicate and construct culture. Learners will understand how to analyze digital communities, produce ethnographic media, and study the social impact of the internet and visual arts.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)

Site of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. It lists the SVA film festival, awards, and its journal Visual Anthropology Review, helping newcomers find key ethnographic films, practitioners and the institutional landscape of visual and multimodal anthropology.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://societyforvisualanthropology.org/

**Tags:** visual-anthropology, ethnographic-film, professional-association, multimodal-ethnography

### 2. visualanthropology.net

VisualAnthropology.net is a resource hub for visual anthropology, bringing together articles, case studies, and essays that examine ethnography through image, video, and digital media. It also offers teaching materials, interviews, and curated media to support research and study in visual ethnography.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://visualanthropology.net

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology

## Courses

### 1. Visual Research Methods

Explore visual research methods in anthropology! Learn to analyze & create visual data with this course from the University of Sheffield.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/visual-research-methods

**Tags:** visual-methods, ethnography, qualitative-research, photography, research-methods

## Books

### 1. Doing Visual Ethnography

**Author:** Sarah Pink

Pink's methods text on using photography, video, and digital media in ethnographic fieldwork, from producing images to analysing and publishing them. Readers finish able to design a visual research project and justify its ethics and epistemology.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761960546?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology

### 2. Digital Anthropology

**Author:** Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller

Edited collection arguing that digital technologies are as fully human as any other cultural form, with chapters on social networking, gaming, and digital divides. Readers gain a framework for ethnographic study of online and mediated life.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857852906?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology

### 3. The Ethnographer's Eye

**Author:** Anna Grimshaw

Anna Grimshaw traces how vision and observation shaped modern anthropology, reassessing Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown alongside the ethnographic cinema of Jean Rouch and the MacDougalls. Readers come away seeing image-making as anthropological argument rather than illustration.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521774756?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology

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