Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208167

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208167

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Visual Research in Social Aesthetics. Despite a few pioneering efforts beginning in the 1930s, visual anthropology (like anthropology itself) has largely confined its interest in aesthetics to studies of indigenous art. It has focused instead on technology, religion, economics, social structure, politics and ideology as the dominant forces in society. I believe this has limited the potential of visual anthropology, which is in fact ideally suited to studying the broader role of aesthetics in human societies. The aim of this research is to examine how a reconsideration of the aesthetics of everyday life might form the basis for a revitalised visual anthropology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-08-2002

End Date: 31-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $734,033.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Multimedia | Anthropology | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Education across cultures | Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Education across cultures | Multimedia | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Studies in human society | Visual Communication

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