Fear of the Visual? Power of ‘Writing’ in Anthropology and the Eclipse of Photography
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… ethnographic enquiries came to depend upon words, words and words, during the period that anthropology was maturing as a science – Margaret Mead in ‘Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words,’ 1995. Paradoxically, while social researchers encounter images constantly, not merely in their own daily lives but as part of the texture of life of those they work with, they sometimes seem at a loss when it comes to incorporating images into their professional…