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Introduction
I have consistently advocated the need to undertake fieldwork
– to examine a particular visual phenomenon in situ, as
it exists and operates among ordinary people living their daily
lives. Willingness and abilities to undertake fieldwork separate
much of visual anthropology from parallel models of visual studies,
including media studies and culture studies. Examples of fieldwork
include middle class American families (see Snapshot
Versions of Life (1987), Navajo in Pine Springs, Arizona
(see Through Navajo Eyes (1997), groups of teenagers
in Philadelphia, Japanese American families in San Francisco
and Gallup, New Mexico (see Turning Leaves (1991),
Japanese living in Tokyo (Book Manuscript in Progress), and
most recently, asthma patients at Boston Children’s Hospital
(see http://www.viaproject.org/
and http://www.childrenshospital.org/cmch/.
All of these examples focus on the production of visual/pictorial
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Navajo
Filmmmaking
Pine Springs, Arizona, 1966
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Teenage
Filmmakers, Philadelphia,
1967-72
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Home Media
Studies
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Japanese
Home Media
1993 - present
Coming soon.
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