Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research

by Marcus Banks

Overview

This book helps students and scholars get started on the exciting journey of using visual data in social research. It covers the many uses a researcher can make of images, from creating images as a part of the research process to collecting and analyzing images from diverse sources. Exploring the opportunities and arming readers with tools to overcome some of the practical challenges, Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research is a perfect guide to uncovering new and unexpected dimensions of social life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473913196
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/19/2018
Series:	Qualitative Research Kit , #5
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Having completed a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, with a study of Jain people in England and India, he trained as an ethnographic documentary filmmaker at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK.

He was the author Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research (2007) and co-editor of Rethinking Visual Anthropology (1997, with Howard Morphy), and Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (2011, with Jay Ruby), as well as publishing numerous papers on visual research.

He published on documentary film forms and film practice in colonial India, and was conducting research on image production and use in forensic science practice.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations     vii
Editorial introduction   Uwe Flick     ix
About this book   Uwe Flick     xv
Introduction     1
The place of visual data in social research: a brief history     19
Approaches to studying the visual     35
Visual methods and field research     57
Presenting visual research     92
Conclusion: images and social research     113
Notes     122
Glossary     127
References     130
Author Index     139
Subject index     141