Visual Anthropology Websites

Provides a visual on-line resource containing scientific journals, news, courses, workshops, and links.

ACMI offers a range of exhibitions, screenings, education, production, and events. Contains collections, exhibitions, and program information.

Provides travel photos taken in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, India, Nepal, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and on safaris in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia). Includes pictures, culture, and history.

Reviews the work of Anya Bernstein. Features descriptions of her ethnographic documentaries, articles, and field notes.

A resource for information about communicating anthropology to the public, and through science media.

Sociocultural anthropologist Karen Nakamura offers a resource for photo-ethnographers. Contains gallery, techniques, equipment, courses, and links.

An independent film production, and distribution company offering socio-cultural documentaries, ethnographic films, and experimental fiction films. Resource for documentary, anthropology, education, and research.

Contains historical archive photography from Smithsonian Institution, Montana Historical Society, Nez Perce National Historic Park, Idaho Historical Society, and private collections.

Contains images by Jean-Francois Berthet of Nepal, and Tibet. Includes photos of Kathmandu, landscapes, Potala, monks, monastaries, statues, paintings, rain, people, and windows.

A paper by Jay Ruby that explores the relationships between reflexivity, anthropology, and film.

Jay Ruby and Richard Chalfen challenge the idea that film is art and science is an objective chronicler of reality in an article that discusses the difficulties experienced in the development of a truly anthropological cinema.

Features teaching, publications, on-going research on home media and Japanese culture conducted by Temple University and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Features out-of-print and unpublished materials for teaching and research.

Dedicated to the presentation of artwork, photographs, video, and sound recordings, which reflect the history, culture of Native Americans in North America, and Central America.

Photographic essay about the natives of the Mistissini Reserve, focusing on changes caused by hydroelectric development.