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Drawing It Out
Author(s) -
Geismar Haidy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12041
Subject(s) - subjectivity , perspective (graphical) , sociology , field (mathematics) , aesthetics , visual arts , epistemology , art , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The fieldwork sketches of A rthur B ernard D eacon, made in V anuatu in 1926–27, give us insight into the early methodologies of social anthropology and into the role of images in anthropological ways of thinking. Here I develop a perspective on field sketches that explores them not only as visual mediations of the fieldworker's subjectivity, but also as genre pieces that indicate very particular forms of training in “how to see.” I draw out the visual conventions, ways of thinking and seeing, that underscore the different strategies that D eacon used in his drawing.