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IN A TIME OF FEAR AND TERROR SEEING, ASSESSING, ASSISTING UNDERSTANDING AND LIVING THE REALITY AND CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTER
Author(s) -
JHALA JAYASINHJI
Publication year - 2004
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 - 10.1525/var.2004.20.1.59
Subject(s) - visual methods , government (linguistics) , desert (philosophy) , visual research , visual anthropology , sociology , history , psychology , media studies , public relations , visual arts , political science , anthropology , art , law , ethnography , linguistics , philosophy
In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake in India in 2001, visual anthropologists, government, aid organizations, and earthquake victims took actions that signaled an incipient applied visual anthropology in practice, such as video and photographic technology and methods of engagement traditionally employed by visual anthropologists. Three case studies provide examples of this activity in the “media invisible” desert villages of Surendranagar District in Gujarat. The need for an engaged applied visual anthropology is demonstrated, and a prescription for its future practice is outlined .