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Repeat Photography as a Method in Visual Anthropology

Trudi Lynn Smith
- 02 Mar 2007 - 
- Vol. 20, pp 179-200
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This article explored the use of repeat photography as a powerful method to produce knowledge about place, and used examples from research in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada, to describe the process of making a repeat photograph, from locating images in archives, to the embodied act of locating a historic vantage point.
Abstract
This paper explores the use of repeat photography as a powerful method to produce knowledge about place. I use examples from research in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada, to describe the process of making a repeat photograph, from locating images in archives, to the embodied act of locating a historic vantage point, to the production of a new photograph. This act brings art and anthropology into a shared space to recreate photographs, an act that goes beyond looking at historical images in archives to move our thinking onward about how we relate to images.

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Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts

TL;DR: Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts by Graeme Sullivan as discussed by the authors provides an in-depth perspective on the inherent value of visual arts practice as research and the robust possibilities that it offers when interconnected with wider research systems and methodologies that are constituted by the other disciplines.
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Nature by Design: People, Natural Process and Ecological Restoration

TL;DR: Higgs' Nature by Design: People, Natural Process and Ecological Restoration by Eric Higgs Reviewed by Elery Hamilton-Smith Charles Sturt University, Australia as discussed by the authors.
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Eco-Photography: Picturing the Global Environmental Imaginary in Space and Time

Karla McManus
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define eco-photography as a category of images that participate in critical ecological and environmentalist practices by maintaining the ideal of an earth in balance, and reveal the conceptual underpinnings of this body of images as a continually shifting set of social values and relations.

Learning to Use Visual Methodologies in Our Research: A Dialogue Between Two Researchers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss learning about using visual methodologies in a research project exploring social networks, neighbourhood spaces and community in an inner city-area of a British northern city.
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The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

Tim Ingold
TL;DR: The Perception of the Environment as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays focusing on the procurement of livelihood, what it means to "dwell" and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before.
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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

TL;DR: In this article, Derrida guides the reader through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology, all occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving.
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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses

TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors explores the history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other, and argues that mime is deeply tied to colonialism, and more specifically to the colonial trade's construction of "savages."
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Ethnography through thick and thin

TL;DR: In this article, an evolving proposal for multi-sited research is presented, and traces in parallel Ethnographic projects are traced in Parallel Ethnography Projects and Power on the Extreme Periphery: The Perspective of Tongan Elites in the Modern World System.
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The art of fieldwork

TL;DR: A portrait of the author as a not-so-young man can be found in this paper, where the author describes how art works in the conduct of fieldwork and how art in relation to the fieldwork story.