Considerations about the use and constitution of a photography corpus on anthropological research

Authors

  • Milton Guran Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2011v7n10p77

Keywords:

Photography, Visual Anthropology, Photography as research instrument.

Abstract

This paper deals with the use of photography as a science and anthropological research instrument. The text is organized in two different parts. The first one presents an inventory about photography possibility of use by social sciences, along with reflections about its use. The second part of the text brings a didactic experience as a laboratory for these reflections, based on the discipline Fotography as research instrument witch gathered master and doctorate students from different São Paulo institutions. The group background diversity contributed to the production of a wide range of approaches about photography uses and functions on local research – also analyzed on
this paper.

Author Biography

Milton Guran, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Doutor em Antropologia (EHESS, 1996). Pesquisador associado do LABHOI – Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Autor de Agudás – os “brasileiros do Benim” (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira / Gama Filho, 2000).

How to Cite

Guran, M. (2011). Considerations about the use and constitution of a photography corpus on anthropological research. Discursos Fotograficos, 7(10), 77–106. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2011v7n10p77

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