ABOUT THE CASE OF THE “REVERSED” USAGE OF “PHOTOGRAPHIC ELICITATION”: REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE ROLE OF THE VISUAL MATERIAL IN FIELDWORK
Keywords:
fieldwork, visual anthropology, gastarbeiters, photographic elicitationAbstract
The study reflects on the significance and the role of the visual material in fieldwork. The emphasis is put on the researcher’s subjective attitude toward the usage of photography (and visual recordings in general) in ethnological/anthropological research. Using the method of photographic elicitation the photographs that were taken during the research conducted on the gastarbeiter population in Serbia are being analyzed in this paper.
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