图像时代的视觉人类学研究--人类学学者访谈录之四十八

Visual Anthropological Study in Image Times——An Interview with Anthropologists(48)

视觉人类学除去它所包含的艺术和科技的成分之外,反映了人类学一个最根本的人文价值取向,即关注视觉背后的人的生存和发展状态;同时,除了通过影视手段记录、表达民族志或人类文化内容及观念的拍摄和研究,它还应该研究视觉工具与人类视觉力的开发,研究视觉认知与视觉思维、视觉符号、视觉表达、视觉传播及视觉文化的传承模式等,另外,关于视觉文化的社会分层、社会控制、时代意象等,都应该是当代视觉人类学关注的问题。

Visual anthropology, besides its elements of art, science and technology, has reflected the most basic human value of anthropology, i.e. focusing on human beings＇ survival and development behind the vision. Meanwhile, apart from recording and expressing ethnography by means of film and television, and from videoing and studying the content and ideas of human culture, visual anthropology should also study visual tools, human vision development, visual cognition, visual thinking, visual symbols, visual expression, visual communication, and the carrying pattern of visual culture. In addition, the social stratification, social control and image of times about visual culture are also what contemporary visual anthropology should focus on.