Visual Anthropology

Journal overview

Aims and scope

Visual Anthropology is a scholarly journal presenting original articles, commentary, discussions, and film and book reviews on anthropological and ethnographic topics. The journal focuses on the study of human behavior through visual means. Experts in the field also examine visual symbolic forms from a cultural-historical framework and provide a cross-cultural study of art and artifacts. Visual Anthropology also promotes the study, use, and production of anthropological and ethnographic films, videos, and photographs for research and teaching.

Additional topics cover:

the relationship of cultural and visual perception;
visual theories, technologies, and methodologies for recording and analyzing behavior and the relationships among different modes of communication;
the study of human behavior through visual means;
the analysis of the structuring of reality as evidenced by visual productions and artifacts;
the study of the forms of social organization surrounding the planning, production, and use of visual symbolic forms;
the support of urgent ethnographic filming;
the use of media in cultural feedback.

Peer Review Policy: This is a peer-reviewed journal. All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and subsequent review by one or two anonymous referees. The only exception is when certain submitted articles fall within the special anthropological competence of one of the editors, in which case that person serves as the reviewer. In addition, we may note that book and film reviews are solicited by the review editors from competent writers, and the reviews are scrutinized by those editors before publication.

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

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