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Abstract
In this article I discuss how visual anthropology methods are advancing in a present-day environment where applied, activist, public and interdisciplinary anthropologies are increasingly central. In earlier work [Pink Citation2004, Citation2006, Citation2007a] I outlined the field of an applied visual anthropology, and discussed the potential of visual methods and media in the production of a public anthropology [Pink Citation2006]. Here I build on this to suggest how recent visual anthropology practices might both contribute to and resolve issues relating to contemporary debates in applied and public anthropology and the relationship between scholarly research and social intervention.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to thank Peter Biella for sending me his papers on his recent work in Tanzania, which helped me to keep up-to-date with some recent developments in this field. The research project discussed in the Prologue to this article was commissioned by ConstructionSkills, the UK Sector Skills Council for the construction industry, and was carried out in collaboration with Prof. Alistair Gibb and Prof. Andrew Dainty (Dept. of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom) and Dr. Dylan Tutt (now of the University of Reading, United Kingdom).
Notes
Visual Interventions [2007] was based on the VAR issue, but with some additional chapters.
An extensive analysis of these texts and their debates has been developed elsewhere (Pink [2009b] “Anthropology at the Interface” Keynote Lecture at the Netherlands Anthropological Association Annual Conference).
The ethical question arises when an individual anthropologist feels it is or is not appropriate to conform to the model of “expert” that is required of her/him in any one scenario.