Why Draw? - Carol Hendrickson

Why Draw?

Drawing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2025
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5659-4 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Why Draw? asks readers to experiment with different forms of mark-making as part of their field research in order to understand new theoretical and methodological perspectives in the social sciences.
In Why Draw?, Carol Hendrickson explores the potential of drawing within the context of ethnographic fieldwork. The book aims to inspire readers to immerse themselves in the generative process of thinking while seeing while drawing.

 To foster visual thinking and encourage experimentation, Hendrickson discusses a range of case studies that show the possibilities of drawing in the field and thinking through the resulting drawings. Richly illustrated, the book focuses on current theoretical and methodological considerations in the social sciences, including semiotic issues of representation and indexicality, embodiment and the senses, affect, collaboration, and temporality. Chapters are supplemented with exercises, practical advice, and short interludes that provide inspiration.

At its heart, Why Draw? asks readers to create visual notes in new and different ways; contemplate a range of contemporary issues through the act of drawing; and explore the potential of drawing to act as a bridge between fieldwork and finished works destined for public presentation.

Carol Hendrickson is a professor emerita of anthropology at Emerson College.

1. Introduction
What to Take: Materials for Drawing in the Field

2. Representing the World: Iconicity
A Drawing Event

3. Being There: Indexicality
Visual Practices in Place

4. Embodiment, Movement, and the Senses
The Artist’s Body

5. The Force of Visual Fieldnotes: Affect
The Notebook as Lyrical Museum

6. Drawing Near: Company, Conversation, and Collaboration
Explorations in Visual Fieldwork Methods

7. About Time: Temporalities and Sequences
Artists’ Books, Bookworks, and Book-Objects

8. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.3.2025
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-5659-4 / 1487556594
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-5659-4 / 9781487556594
Zustand Neuware
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