Features

June 8, 2018

Funny, Awkward, Tender, Focused: Drawing Bodies

This article is part of the series: Image + Text

Drawings from my research on childbirth in California created an opportunity for sharing reflections on fieldwork and “seeing.” Birth is a highly mediated experience, with ubiquitous images of happy, beautiful, peaceful babies and mammas crowding everything from packaging and magazines to instructional literature and advertisements for birth professionals. This birth imagery has a minor counterpart from the activist community that …

Features

May 13, 2016

Creative Collaborations: The Making of “Lissa (Still Time): a graphic medical ethnography of friendship, loss, and revolution”

By Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye

This article is part of the series: Image + Text

Is there a widely accessible yet conceptually rigorous way to convey anthropological insights into the lived complexities and bioethical dilemmas that attend managing chronic illness in two vastly different contexts: the contemporary Arab world and the United States? As it turns out, there is: comics. At the time we began to explore this question, we had both been excited by …

Features

August 14, 2015

Image as Method: Conversations on Anthropology through the Image

By Andrés Romero

This article is part of the series: Image + Text

What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4^th and 5^th, 2015, at Columbia University’s Heyman Center for the Humanities, organized by Brian Goldstone. The symposium featured numerous presenters and commentators: Diana Allan, Vincent Crapanzano, Robert Desjarlais, Angela Garcia, Gökç…

Books

December 1, 2014

Martin Jay & Sumathi Ramaswamy’s Empires of Vision

By Lydia Pyne

Empires of Vision: A Reader

Edited by Martin Jay & Sumathi Ramaswamy

Duke University Press, 2014, 688 pages.

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the …

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Tag Archives: Images

Funny, Awkward, Tender, Focused: Drawing Bodies

Creative Collaborations: The Making of “Lissa (Still Time): a graphic medical ethnography of friendship, loss, and revolution”

Image as Method: Conversations on Anthropology through the Image

Martin Jay & Sumathi Ramaswamy’s Empires of Vision