Audio-visual anthropology

M. S. Mahendrakumar

Through this book, I am humbly placing Audio-Visual Anthropology as a new version of Visual Anthropology in front of the anthropologists of the world. Besides that I have made an attempt to provide the history and development of visual anthropology succinctly. Audio-Visual Anthropology is not a terminological shift from Visual Anthropology, but it is a conceptual, theoretical, and practical shift from Visual Anthropology to Audio-Visual Anthropology. This new version does not discard any of the positive features of Visual Anthropology but it is adding a new dimension to Visual Anthropology. This book will be extremely useful for Visual Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Folklore Studies, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Visual Media, etc. An Appendix provided at the end of this book gives a brief description of various branches of Anthropology, which will help all the readers to have a general understanding on anthropology.