CONTENTS Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Foreword-Edward T. Hall.. ......... ......... ......... ......... . xiii Introduction 1 The Challenge of Observ ation and the Nature of Photog raphy ......... ......... ......... ...... :. . . 5 -The Image with a Memo ry -The Camera as a Research Tool Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Collier, john, 1913Visual anthropology. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Photogr aphy in ethnology. 2. Moving-pictures in ethnology. I. Collier, Malcolm, 1948- . II. Title. 86-6926 306'.0208 GN347.C64 1986 ISBN 0-8263-0898-8 ISBN 0-8263-0899-6 (pbk.) ©1986 by the University of New Mexico Press. Previously publishe d by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967, ISBN 0-03-065245-6. All rights reserved. Third paperbo und printing , 1990 2 The Camera in the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3 Orient ation and Rappo rt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 -Socia l Orient ation -The Photographer: A Participant Observ er -Photo graph y and Rappo rt 4 Photog raphin g the Overview: Mappi ng and Surveying ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ........ . 29 -Mapp ing -The Photographic Shape of Comm unity Designs -Photo graphi c Surveys v