A Visual and Tactile Path: Affective Positioning of Researcher Using a Cultural-Historical Visual Methodology

2013 ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Quiñones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Methodology

Visual methodology

2016 ◽  
pp. 1009-1010
Author(s):  
William G. Feighery
Keyword(s):  
Visual Methodology

scholarly journals Itako on screen

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ilaria Vecchi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The North ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Critical Religion ◽  
Visual Methodology ◽  
North Eastern Part

This article is based on my fieldwork with Itako shamans in the north-eastern part of Japan. The progressive modernisation of Japan at the expense of rural areas has also affected Tohoku, resulting in the ageing of the social fabric of its communities. Within this context, this article focusses on traditional and established activities practised by the blind female Itako shamans, who are going through a process of adaptation. Therefore, the article is concerned with this process and, in particular, on the methodology applied before and during my fieldwork experience of spending time, observing, having conversations, and filming these women in their everyday life. In the attempt to understand and document these shamans, I consider the use of visual ethnographic methods for understanding the changing aspects and their implications on the life of these women. While doing this, I also considered their communities and the area in which they live. I analyse this process by blending different methodologies such as visual methodology and digital visual ethnography and the critical religion approach proposed by Fitzgerald (2000). In addition, the paper will describe how I applied this methodology to provide a fresh look at these women and their daily activity.

Book review: Sarah Pink (ed.), Advances in Visual Methodology

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-472
Author(s):  
Nathan Stephens Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Visual Methodology

Photographic visions and narrative inquiry

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Visual Methodology

This paper examines the ways in which photographic images can be used in narrative inquiry. After introducing the renewed interest in visual methodology the first section examines the ways in which researchers have utilised the camera or photographic images in research studies that are broadly similar to forms of narrative inquiry such as auto/biography, photographic journals, video diaries and photo-voice. It then draws on the published literature in relation to the author’s own empirical research into everyday photography. Here the extent to which the practices which are part of everyday photography can be seen as forms of story-telling and provide access to both narratives and counter-narratives, are explored. Ideas about memory and identity construction are considered. A critical area of argument centres on the relationship of images to other texts, and asks whether it is possible for photographs to narrate independent of written or oral word. It concludes with some remarks about how photographs can be used in research and as a resource for narrative inquiry. This necessitates a understanding of what it is people do with photographs in everyday life.

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