Readings

The following readings are suggested background reading for this course. Each section is meant to give you some ideas about how to visually conceptualize an anthropological theory.

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Visualizing Theory-Discussion #1 Seeing (Racism, stigma, gestures)

Bernard, H. Russell (2011) Chapter 14, Direct and Indirect Observation. In Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Crowder, J (2007). Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia: a Photographic Essay. Research in Urban Sociology 8, 181-195.

Enfield, N J, Sotaro Kita, and J P de Ruiter (2007). Primary and Secondary Pragmatic Functions of Pointing Gestures. Journal of Pragmatics 39(10), 1722-1741.

Finlay, WML, C. Antaki, and C. Walton (2007). On Not Being Noticed: Intellectual Disabilities and the Nonvocal Register. Journal Information 45(4), 227-245.

Goodwin, C. (2000). Vision. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2), 267-270.

Gravlee, C C (2005). Ethnic Classification in Southeastern Puerto Rico: the Cultural Model of “Color.” Social Forces 83(3), 949-970.

Suchar, C.S. (1997). Grounding Visual Sociology Research in Shooting Scripts. Qualitative Sociology 20(1), 33-55.

Visualizing Theory Discussion #2 Touching (Embodiment)

Archer, D. (1997). Unspoken Diversity: Cultural Differences in Gestures. Qualitative Sociology 20(1), 79-105.

Nishizaka, Aug (2007). Hand Touching Hand: Referential Practice at a Japanese Midwife House. Human Studies 30(3), 199-217.

Radke-Yarrow, M., E. Nottelmann, B. Belmont, and J.D. Welsh (1993). Affective Interactions of Depressed and Nondepressed Mothers and Their Children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 21(6), 683-695.

Rose, M. (1999). “Our Hands Will Know”: the Development of Tactile Diagnostic Skill—Teaching, Learning, and Situated Cognition in a Physical Therapy Program. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 30(2), 133-160.

Visualizing Theory Discussion #3 Participation, Acculturation, Habitus, Excerpt from The Lifeflight Ventilator Project -Liz Cartwright and Mark Romero

Goodwin, M.H. (2000). Participation. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1), 177-180.

Goodwin, M.H. (2007). Participation and Embodied Action in Preadolescent Girls’ Assessment Activity. Research on Language and Social Interaction 40(4), 353-375.

Mackenzie, Colin F., Yan Xiao, and Richard Horst (2004). Video Task Analysis in High Performance Teams. Cognition, Technology & Work 6(3), 139-147.

Thornquist, E (1997). Three Voices in a Norwegian Living Room: an Encounter From Physiotherapy Practice. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(3), 324-351.

Visualizing Theory Discussion #4 Affect (Emotion)

Goodwin, C. (2000). Vision. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2), 267-270.

Kochanska, G, and M. Radke-Yarrow (1992). Inhibition in Toddlerhood and the Dynamics of the Child’s Interaction with an Unfamiliar Peer at Age Five. Child Development 63(2), 325-335.

Visualizing Theory Discussion #5 Combining various levels/foci of analysis

Crasborn, O., H. Sloetjes, E. Auer, and P. Wittenburg (2006). Combining Video and Numeric Data in the Analysis of Sign Languages Within the ELAN Annotation Software. Proc. LREC 2006 Workshop on Representation & Processing of Sign Languages. 82-87

Jules-Rosette, B, C McVey, and M Arbitrario (2002). Performance Ethnography: the Theory and Method of Dual Tracking. Field Methods 14(2), 123-147.

Shrum, Wesley, Ricardo Duque, and Marcus Ynalvez (2007). Lessons of the Lower Ninth: Methodology and Epistemology of Video Ethnography. Technology in Society 29(2), 215-225.

Other Suggested Reading

Dent, Elizabeth, Rhonda Brown, Sharon Dowsett, Martin Tattersall, and Phyllis Butow (2005). The Cancode Interaction Analysis System in the Oncological Setting: Reliability and Validity of Video and Audio Tape Coding. Patient Education and Counseling 56(1), 35-44.

Miller, J, K. Vine, and D. Larkin (2007). The Relationship of Process and Product Performance of the Two-Handed Sidearm Strike. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 12(1), 61-76.

Morse, Janice M., and Charlotte Pooler (2002). Analysis of Videotaped Data: Methodological Considerations. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 1(4), 62-67.

Riddle, D.L., T.L. Albrecht, M.D. Coovert, et al. (2002). Differences in Audiotaped Versus Videotaped Physician-Patient Interactions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 26(4), 219-239.

Rosenblum, Katherine L, Charles Zeanah, Susan McDonough, and Maria Muzik (2004). Video-Taped Coding of Working Model of the Child Interviews: a Viable and Useful Alternative to Verbatim Transcripts? Infant Behavior and Development 27(4), 544-549.

Twine, France Winddance (2006). Visual Ethnography and Racial Theory: Family Photographs as Archives of Interracial Intimacies. Ethnic and Racial Studies 29(3), 487-511.

van den Brink-Muinen, A, S van Dulmen, V Messerli-Rohrbach, and J Bensing (2002). Do Gender-Dyads Have Different Communication Patterns? a Comparative Study in Western-European General Practices. Patient Education and Counseling 48(3), 253-264.

Books Also Suggested:

Pink, Sarah (2007). Doing Visual Ethnography, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Banks, Marcus and Jay Ruby, eds. (2011). Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology. Univ. of Chicago Press.