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Research:

Visual & Graphic Arts

 

This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for iconography, visual anthropology and Graphic Arts.

Recommended Reading:

Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins by Stephanie Moser 1998

Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory by Alfred Gell 1998

Art as Culture by Evelyn Payne Hatcher1999

Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography by Leslie Devereaux & Roger Hillman (Editors) 1995

Image-Based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers by Jon Prosser(Editor) 1998

Rethinking Visual Anthropology by Marcus Banks & Howard Morphy (Editors)1999

The Secret Museum of Mankind by David Stiffler (Introduction), Gibbs Smith 1999

The Visual Culture Reader by Nicholas Mirzoeff (Editor), et al 1998

 

Links:

  1. Anthropology Exhibits on the WWW
  2. Art Collections on the Web
  3. Indigenous Aesthetics: native art, media, and identity.
  4. Opartplus Essays on neo-shamanism and art theory by Glen Etzkorn.
  5. New Directions Project: Tom R. Chambers brings over twenty years of photography and visual arts experience to the Web with over thirty exhibitions in the United States, Zimbabwe and South Korea.
  6. Poison's Icons: Free icons, graphics and clip art. If you are looking for Native American graphics that you can use on your web site, then this is the place to go.
  7. Visual Anthropology: A collection of new and used books on the subject of art and human perception.
  8. Visual Anthropology URL List. facilitates web searches by cross-indexing three hundred and seventy-five anthropological sites according to the categories of information they contain.